STRONGS G330:
ἀναθάλλω: 2 aorist
ἀνέθαλον; (
Psalm 27:7 (
Ps. 28:7); Wis. 4:4; very rare in Greek writings and only in the poets, cf.
Bttm. Ausf. Spr. ii., p. 195; [Veitch, under the word
θάλλω; Winers Grammar, 87 (83); Buttmann, 59 (52)]);
to shoot up, sprout again, grow green again, flourish again (Homer, Iliad 1, 236; Aelian v. h. 5, 4); tropically, of those whose condition and affairs are becoming more prosperous:
Philippians 4:10 ἀνεθάλετε τὸ ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ φρονεῖν ye have revived so as to take thought for me [the infinitive being the Greek accusative, or accusative of specification, Winers Grammar, 317 (298); cf. Ellicott at the passage]. Others, according to a transitive use of the verb found only in the
Sept. (
Ezekiel 17:24; Sir. 1:18, etc.), render
ye have revived (
allowed to revive)
your thought for me [the infinitive being taken as an object-accusative, Winers Grammar, 323 (303); Buttmann, 263 (226); cf. Bp. Lightfoot at the passage]; against whom see Meyer at the passage.
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