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G359 ἀνάλυσις (análysis)
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ἀνάλυσις, εως, ἡ n.f. departing, departure from this life

Strong's Definition

departure

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

noun, f. | -εως | λύω

23.101 · Physiological Processes and States · Live, Die

to leave this life, to die, death, departure (a figurative extension of meaning of ἀνάλυσις loosing, releasing, not occurring in the NT) to depart from life, as a euphemistic expression for death

2TI 4:6

1 Expressions occurring in numbered items 23.101-23.105 involve euphemistic expressions for death. These have been subdivided on the basis of certain significant features of the underlying bases, as will be noted in the discussions.

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἀνάλυσις, -ews, 7. (ἀναλύω. q- V-); 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. Hom. Od. 15, 548; [or, ace. to others, fr. breaking up an encampment; cf. Bp. Lghtft. on Phil. i. 23]), Germ. Aufbruch: 2 Tim. iv. 6 (departure from life; Philo in Flace. § 21 [p. 544 ed. Mang. ] ἡ ἐκ τοῦ βίου τελευταία ἀνάλυσις ; [Clem. Rom. 1 Cor. 44, 5 ἔγκαρπον k. τελείαν ἔσχον τὴν ἀνάλυσιν; Euseb. h. e. 8, 32, 1 μαρτυρίῳ τὸν βίον ἀναλῦσαι, cf. 3, 34]. CE. ἀνάλυσις ἀπὸ συνουσίας, Joseph. antt. 19, 4, 1).

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἀνάλυσις analysis 1x

pr. dissolution; met. departure, death, 2 Tim. 4:6*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

* ἀνά-λυσις, -εως, ἡ

(< ἀναλύω),

a loosing, e.g. of a vessel from its moorings, hence, departure: from life, II Ti 4:6.†

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ἀνάλυσις (analusis) — departure. ἀνάλῠ-σις, εως, ἡ, (ἀναλύω) loosing, releasing, κακῶν from evils, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

2. dissolving, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; σώματος, of death, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

3. resolution of a problem by the analysis of its conditions, opposed to σύνθεσις, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

4. in the Logic of [Refs 4th c.BC+], reduction of the imperfect figures into the perfect one, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]

5. solution of a problem, etc., [Refs 1st c.AD+]

II. (from passive) retrogression, [Refs]; retirement, departure, [Refs 1st c.AD+]; death [NT]

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