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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - ἀνασκευάζω
ἀνασκευάζω
G384
Transliteration: anaskeuázō
Pronunciation: an-ask-yoo-ad'-zo
Definition: subvert
- Original: ἀνασκευάζω - Transliteration: Anaskeuazo - Phonetic: an-ask-yoo-ad'-zo
- Definition:
1. to pack up baggage in order to carry it away to another place
a. to move one's furniture (when setting out for some other place)
2. of an enemy
a. dismantling, plundering
3. of a place
a. to overthrow, ravage destroy towns lands etc.
4. to turn away violently from a right state, to unsettle, subvert
- Origin: from G303" class="dictionary-topic-link">G303 (in the sense of reversal) and a derivative of G4632" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4632 - TDNT entry: None - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: From G303" class="dictionary-topic-link">G303 (in the sense of reversal) and a derivative of G4632" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4632; properly to pack up (baggage) that is (by implication and figuratively) to upset: - subvert.