Strong's G384: ἀνασκευάζω (anaskeuázō) Meaning

Quick Definition

ἀνασκευάζω v. I pervert, unsettle, destroy

Strong's Definition

properly, to pack up (baggage), i.e. (by implication, and figuratively) to upset

Derivation: from G303 (ἀνά) (in the sense of reversal) and a derivative of G4632 (σκεῦος);

KJV Usage: subvert

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἀνασκευάζω (G0384)

verb | σκευάζω (prepare) · σκεῦος

25.231 · Attitudes and Emotions · Worry, Anxiety, Distress, Peace

to distress, to upset to cause someone distress and worry

ACT 15:24

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἀνασκευάζω; (σκευάζω, from (σκεῦος a vessel, utensil); 1. to pack up baggage (Latinvasacolligere) in order to carry it away to another place: Xenophon, an. 5, 10 (6, 2) 8. Middle to move one's furniture (when setting out for some other place, Xenophon, Cyril 8, 5, 4 ὅταν δέ ἀνασκευαζωνται, συντιθησι μέν ἕκαστος τά σκεύη); hence, 2. of an enemy dismantling, plundering, a place (Thucydides 4, 116); to overthrow, ravage, destroy, towns, lands, etc.; tropically, ψυχάς, to turn away violently from a right state, to unsettle, subvert: Act_15:24.

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἀνασκευάζω anaskeuazō 1x

pr. to collect one’s effects or baggage (σκεύη) in order to remove; to lay waste by carrying off or destroying every thing; met. to unsettle, pervert, subvert, Acts 15:24*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

* ἀνα-σκευάζω

(< σκεῦος, a vessel),

prop. to pack up baggage, hence, to dismantle, ravage, destroy; metaph., to unsettle, subvert (MM, VGT, s.v.): ψυχάς, Ac 15:24.†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ἀνασκευάζω. P Oxy IV. 745° (c. A.p. 1) p[\]... πάλιν ἑατοὺς ἀνασκευάζωμε[ν] μὴ οὔσης χρήας, ‘and we go bankrupt again without any necessity” (Edd.). This really involves the meaning ‘‘subvert” found in Ac 15*4, drawn from the military sense, ‘‘to plunder,’ Vettius Valens has the word twice: p. 21279, ἐὰν δόξῃ τις ἐν αὐταῖς ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκπλοκήν τινα πεποιηκέναι πράγματός τινος, ἀνασκευασθήσεται καὶ ἐπιτάραχον γενήσεται καὶ ἐπιζήμιον ἢ εὐκαθαίρετον καὶ προσκοπτικόν, and 2833 τῷ δὲ AO ἔτει “dismantle ” a town. τοῦ πράγματος ἀνασκευασθέντος διὰ τὴν προύπάρχουσαν ἔχθραν εἰς νῆσον κατεδικάσθη. Kroll (Index s.v.) makes it here “τ. τ. iudiciorum,” the ‘‘ reversal” of a judgement presumably. The noun (p. 22877) ἀνασκευασμοὺς τηκτῶν πραγμάτων does not look technical—‘‘ upset’? would seem to represent it, as in the phrase ἀνασκευαὶ πραγμάτων (four times).

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ἀνασκευάζω (anaskeuazō) — to upset. ἀνασκευ-άζω, pack up the baggage (τὰ σκεύη), and so, carry away, remove, τὴν ἀγορὰν εἴσω[Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. τοὺς Ἀθηναίους ἐκ θαλάττης divert them from naval enterprise, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]:— in middle, break up camp, march away, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

2. dismantle a place, [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—in middle, dismantle one's house or city, [Refs]

3. waste, ravage, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. τὰς συνθήκας break them, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]:—in middle, τάφον[Refs 1st c.AD+]

4. passive, to be bankrupt, τῆς τραπέζης ἀνασκευασθείσης[Refs 4th c.BC+]; οἱ ἀνεσκευασμένοι τῶν τραπεζιτῶν broken bankers, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

5. of logicians, demolish opponent's arguments, definitions, etc., opposed to κατασκευάζειν, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

6. reverse a decision or judgement, Vett. Val.[Refs]disturb, opposed to οἰκοδομέω, [NT]

7. in Medicine texts, remove, νόσον[Refs 2nd c.AD+]

II. build again, remodel, [Refs 1st c.BC+]:—also in middle, build, οἴκους[Refs 1st c.AD+]

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon

ἀνα-σκευάζω (σκεῦος, a vessel), prop, to pack up baggage, hence, to dismantle, ravage, destroy; metaphorically, to unsettle, subvert (MM, VGT, see word): ψυχάς, Act.15:24.† (AS)

Bible Occurrences (1)

15:24

G384 ἀνασκευάζω (anaskeuázō)