Quick Definition
ἀναλύω v. I depart, return
Strong's Definition
from 303 and 3089; to break up, i.e. depart (literally or figuratively)
KJV Usage: depart, return
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | λύω
15.89 · Linear Movement · Return
to move back, to return to move back to a point or area from which one has previously departed, but with more explicit emphasis upon the return (compare ὑποστρέφω[a], 15.88)
23.101 · Physiological Processes and States · Live, Die
to leave this life, to die, death, departure (a figurative extension of meaning of ἀναλύω to depart, not occurring in the NT) to depart from life, as a euphemistic expression for death
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.
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀναλύω analyō 2x
pr. to loose, dissolve; intrans. to loose in order to departure; to depart, Lk. 12:36; to depart from life, Phil. 1:23*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** ἀνα-λύω
[in LXX: I Es 3:3, To 2:9, Jth 13:1, Si 3:15, Wi3, Mac10*;]
to unloose.
to unloose for departure, depart (MM, VGT, s.v.): from life, Phl 1:23
to return, Lk 12:36.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀναλύω. For the intransitive meaning ‘‘depart” (Polybius and later), cf. P Tor I. 14-18 (8.6. 116) (= Chest. IL. p. 32) ἐγὼ δὲ ἐφ᾽ ἱκανὰς ἡμέρας καταφθαρεὶς ἠναγκάσθην, τῶν ἀνθρώπων μὴ ἐρχομένων εἰς τὰς χεῖρας, ἀναλῦσαι εἰς τὸ τεταγμένον, ‘‘demandatam mihi stationem repetere” (Peyron, and so Mitteis). Closely parallel is the contemporary P Par 1555 (#.c. 120) οἰομένων ἐφ᾽ ἱκανὸν χρόνον καταφθαρέντα pe ἐντεῦθεν ἀναλύσειν. So is, 2239 (ii/B.c.) ἀποσυλήσας ἡμᾶς ἀνέλυσε, P Lond 4417 (B.c. 161) (= I. p. 34) μετὰ κραυγῆς τε διαστελλομένου μεθ᾽ ἡσυχίας ἀναλύειν. In a Ptolemaic papyrus published by Grenfell-Hunt in Archiv i. p. 59 ff. we find λύσαντες ἐκχρήματα θ ἀνέλυσαν, where the editors note that ἀνέλυσαν may = ‘they returned” (cf. Lk 1238) or may refer to the preceding βασιλικὸν χῶμα, ‘they destroyed it.” For the meaning ‘‘die” Nageli, p. 34, cites the memorial inscription /GSZ 1794? (Rom.) kal πῶς μοι βεβίωται καὶ πῶς ἀνέλυσα μαθήσ(ῃ), cf 2. 159 ἀναλύειν τὸν βίον.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀναλύω (analuō) — to depart. ἀνα-λύω,
__BEpic dialect ἀλλύω (ἀνλύω [Refs] for the tenses and prosody: [Refs 8th c.BC+]:— unloose, undo, of Penelope's web, νύκτας δ᾽ ἀλλύεσκεν[Refs 8th c.BC+] __B.2 unloose, set free, ἐμὲ δ᾽ ἐκ δεσμῶν ἀνέλυσαν[Refs 8th c.BC+] __B.3 in Medicine texts, relax, in passive, [Refs 4th c.BC+] __B.II undo in various senses: __B.II.1 unloose, ζώνην[Refs 3rd c.BC+]; in middle, unwind a cocoon, [Refs 4th c.BC+] __B.II.2 Astrology texts, nullify, of planetary influence, [Refs 2nd c.AD+] __B.II.3 dissolve matter into its elements, ἐς αὐτὰ ταῦτα[Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, of snow, melt, [Refs 1st c.AD+] __B.II.3.b resolve into its elements, οὐ καλὸν ἁρμονίην ἀναλυέμεν ἀνθρώποιο[Refs 1st c.AD+]:— investigate analytically, διάγραμμα[Refs 4th c.BC+]:—passive, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ὁ -όμενος τόπος the treasury of analysis, [Refs 3rd c.AD+] __B.II.4 in the Logic of [Refs 4th c.BC+], reduce a syllogism, [Refs] __B.II.5 reduce, σχοινία εἰς ὀργυιάς[Refs 2nd c.BC+] __B.II.6 Grammars, resolve, κτητικὰ εἰς γενικάς[Refs 2nd c.AD+] __B.II.7 do away, cancel, μόρσιμ᾽ ἀ. Ζεὺς οὐ τολμᾷ[Refs 5th c.BC+]: mostly in middle, cancel faults, πάντα ταῦτα[Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀλλύοιτό κα τὸ χρέος discharge the debt, probably in [Refs 6th c.AD+] __B.II.8 suspend, τὰ περὶ κυνηγέσιον[Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.II.9 solve the problem of a thing, τὸν Ἰνδὸν ἀ. trace its source, [Refs 1st c.AD+] __B.II.10 release from a spell, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—passive, [Refs 4th c.BC+] __B.II.11 relieve, [Refs 2nd c.AD+] __B.III intransitive, loose from moorings, weigh anchor, and so, depart, go away, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]: absolutely, die, [NT+2nd c.AD+] __B.III.2 return, [LXX+NT]