Quick Definition
ἀναβάλλω v. I postpone, defer
Strong's Definition
to put off (for oneself)
Derivation: middle voice from G303 (ἀνά) and G906 (βάλλω);
KJV Usage: defer
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | βάλλω
56.18 · Courts and Legal Procedures · Judicial Hearing, Inquiry
to adjourn a hearing, to stop a hearing and put it off until later to adjourn a court proceeding until a later time
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀνα-βάλλω: 2 aor. mid. ἀνεβαλόμην ; 1. to throw or toss up. 2. to put back or off, delay, postpone, (very often in Grk. writ.) ; in this sense also in mid. (prop. to defer for one’s self): twa, to hold back, delay; ina forensic sense to put off any one (Lat. ampliare, Cic. Verr. act. 2, 1, 9 § 26) i. e. to defer hearing and deciding (adjourn) any one’s case: Acts xxiv. 22; cf. Kypke [or Wetst.] ad loc.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀναβάλλω anaballō 1x
to throw back; mid. to put off, defer, adjourn, Acts 24:22*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀνα-βάλλω,
[in LXX: Ps 78:21 89:38 (עבר), I Ki 28:14, Ps 104:2 (עטה);]
to defer, put off (MM, VGT, s.v.): mid., Ac 24:22.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀναβάλλω that the Serapeum was situated above the town, so that the verb was appropriate, as in Lk 18%. The common phrase @. εἰς Ιεροσόλυμα, etc., may be illustrated from P Lond 1170 verso (A.D. 258-9), (=III. p. 194), where an account of labourers ‘‘ off work” (ἀργησάντων) describes one as ἀναβὰς els τὴν πόλιν and another ἀναβὰς ἐπὶ τῆς πόλ, The same meaning, or something near it, may be seen recurring in P Oxy VIII. 1157 (late iii/a.p.), as "5 ἀντίγραψον κἀγὼ ἀναβαίνω καὶ ἀπογράφομαι, 75. 7 ἐπιδὴ οὖν οὐ δύναμαι ἀναβῆναι ἴδε ἠ (/. εἰ) δύνῃ ἡμᾶς ἀπογράψε : we should use ‘‘ come up” in the same connotation. So 20. VI. 93519 \iii/A.D.) ἔμελλον 8[8] καὶ αἰὐτὸ]ς ἀναβῆναι, BGU IV. 1097® (i/A.D.) Hav δὲ ὁ ἀντίδικος ἀναβῇ, περίβλεπε αὐτόν. In zd. 1141 (late i/B.c.) ἡμέρας δὲ ἐν αἷς ἀναβαίνωι, εὑρίσκωι αὐτὸν καθήμενο(ν) it perhaps means ‘‘go upstairs.” In P Petr 11. 9 (3)8 (iii/B.c.) πλήρωμα ἀναβέβηκεν is ‘the gang has gone away.” Cf. MGr ἀνεβαίνω. For the substantive cf. P Grenf II. 67 (a.D. 237) (= Selections, p. 109) where three asses are provided imp καταβάσεως Kal ἀναβάσεως, ‘for the conveyance down and up again” of dancing girls for a village festival. ᾿Ανάβασις is common in the papyri and the inscriptions of the “rising” of the Nile, e.g. BGU 1. 124 (A.D. 181-2) [τῆς τοῦ] ἱερωτάτου Νείλου ἐπ᾿ ἀγαθῷ ἀναβάσεως, Οὐ 15 666 (c. A.D. 55) ἡ Αἴγυπτος, τὰς τοῦ Νείλου δωρεὰς ἐπαυξομένας κατ᾽ ἔτος θεωροῦσα, νῦν μᾶλλον ἀπέλαυσε τῆς δικαίας ἀναβάσεως τοῦ θεοῦ, where Dittenberger draws attention to the fact that δικαία ἀνάβασις is a ‘solenne yocabulum” in this connexion. So in the papyri, BGU lV. 1208)? (p.c. 27) τ][ῃν ἀποτομίαν (see s.v.) τῆς ἀναβάσεως, There are some other instances in Meyer’s note on P Giss I. 37, intro. n°, In Cagnat 111. 975 (? i/a.p.) &. is part of a house: τὴν ἀ. ταύτην σὺν τῇ ἁψεῖδι.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀναβάλλω (anaballō) — to defer. ἀναβάλλω, throw up, χοῦν ἐξ ὀρύγματος[Refs 5th c.BC+]; τάφρος ἀναβεβλημένη foss and dyke, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. ἀ. τινὰ ἐπὶ τὸν ἵππον put on horseback, mount him, [Refs]; of the horse, ἀ. τὸν ἀναβάτην unseat his rider, [Refs]
3. ἀ. τὰ ὄμματα cast up one's eyes, so as to show the whites, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
4. cause to spring up, κρήνην[Refs 1st c.BC+]
5. lay bricks, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
6. lift, remove a tumour, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
7. passive, to be lifted up, in prayer, εὔχονται σπλάγχνοισι κακῶς ἀναβαλλομένοισι[Refs 6th c.BC+]
II. put back, put off, μηκέτι νῦν ἀνάβαλλε.. ἄεθλον[Refs 8th c.BC+] (the only place in which [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀ. τινά put off [with excuses], [Refs 4th c.BC+]; distract one's attention, [Refs 2nd c.AD+] —passive, ἀνεβλήθη ἡ ἐκκλησία it was adjourned, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὥστε.. εἰς τοὺς παῖδας ἀναβληθήσεσθαι τὰς τιμωρίας will be put off to the time of the sons, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2. perfect participle passive ἀναβεβλημένος slow, measured, αὔλημα[Refs 1st c.AD+]: so in adverb -μένως slowly, [Refs 1st c.BC+]
II.2. b of style, diffuse, τὸ ὕπτιον καὶ ἀ.[Refs 2nd c.AD+]; λέξις ἀ., opposed to συνεστραμμένη, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
III. like [Refs 5th c.BC+], put on, ἀ. τὸ Κρητικόν (a short cloak) [Refs 5th c.BC+]
IV. run a risk (probably metaphorically from dice), ἐγώ σφε θάψω κἀνὰ κίνδυνον βαλῶ[Refs 4th c.BC+] __B more frequently in middle, strike up, begin to play or sing [Refs 8th c.BC+] __B.II put off, delay a thing in which oneself is concerned[Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἰς τὴν ὑστεραίαν ἀναβαλέσθαι [τὴν δίαιταν] to adjourn till the morrow, [NT+5th c.BC+]: absolutely, defer payment, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: with future infinitive, ἀ. κυρώσειν ἐς τέταρτον μῆνα[Refs 5th c.BC+]: with aorist infinitive, ἀ. ὑποκρίνασθαι[Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.II.2 throw off oneself on another, refer a thing to him, τὶ ἐπί τινα[Refs 2nd c.AD+] __B.III throw one's cloak up or back, throw it over the shoulder, so as to let it hang in folds, ἀναβάλλεσθαι χλαῖναν[Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἴσω τὴν χεῖρα ἔχοντα ἀναβεβλημένον with one's cloak thrown up or back, [Refs 4th c.BC+] __B.IV = above [Refs 4th c.BC+] risk battles, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.V to be wroth, [LXX]