STRONGS G359:
ἀνάλυσις,
-εως,
ἡ, (
ἀναλύω, which see);
1. an unloosing (as of things woven),
a dissolving (into separate parts).
2. departure (a metaphor drawn from loosing from moorings preparatory to setting sail, cf. Homer, Odyssey 15, 548; [or, according to others, from breaking up an encampment; cf. Bp. Lightfoot on
Philippians 1:23]), German
Aufbruch: 2 Timothy 4:6 (departure from life; Philo in Flacc. § 21 [p. 544, Mang. edition]
ἡ ἐκ τοῦ βίου τελευταία ἀνάλυσις; [Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 44, 5
ἔγκαρπον κ.
τελείαν ἔσχον τὴν ἀνάλυσιν; Eusebius,
h. e. 3, 32, 1
μαρτυρίῳ τὸν βίον ἀναλῦσαι, cf. 3, 34]. Cf.
ἀνάλυσις ἀπὸ συνουσίας, Josephus, Antiquities 19, 4, 1).
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