Original Word: ἐπιλύω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: epiluó
Pronunciation: eh-pee-LOO-oh
Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ee-loo'-o)
KJV: determine, expound
NASB: explaining, settled
Word Origin: [from G1909 (ἐπί - over) and G3089 (λύω - untie)]

1. to solve further
2. (figuratively) to explain, decide

determine, expound.

From epi and luo; to solve further, i.e. (figuratively) to explain, decide -- determine, expound.

see GREEK epi

see GREEK luo

Cognate: 1956 epilýō (from 1909 /epí, "on, fitting," intensifying 3089 /lýō, "to loose") – properly, appropriately unloose ("aptly unpack").

[The noun-form of the term is used of "loosening, untying the 'hard knots' of Scripture – see 1955 (epílysis) at 2 Pet 1:20" (WS, at Mk 4:34).]

Word Origin
from epi and luó
Definition
to loose, to solve
NASB Translation
explaining (1), settled (1).

STRONGS NT 1956: ἐπιλύω

ἐπιλύω: imperfect ἐπελυον; 1 future passive ἐπιλυθήσομαι;

a. properly, to unloose, untie (German auflösen) anything knotted or bound or sealed up; (Xenophon, Theocr, Herodian).

b. to clear (a controversy), to decide, settle: Acts 19:39; to explain (what is obscure and hard to understand): Mark 4:34 (as in Genesis 41:12 variant; Philo, vita contempl. § 10; de agricult. § 3; Sextus Empiricus, 2, 246; γριφους, Athen. 10, p. 449 e.; also in middle, Athen. 10, p. 450 f.; Josephus, Antiquities 8, 6, 5, and often by the Scholiasts).

επέλυε επελυεν ἐπέλυεν επιλυθησεται επιλυθήσεται ἐπιλυθήσεται epeluen epelyen epélyen epiluthesetai epiluthēsetai epilythesetai epilythēsetai epilythḗsetaiInterlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts