STRONGS G366:
ἀνανήφω: ['in good authors apparently confined to the present'; 1 aorist
ἀνένηψα];
to return to soberness (
ἐκ μέθης. which is added by Greek writers); metaphorically:
2 Timothy 2:26 ἐκ τῆς τοῦ διαβόλου παγίδος [Winers Grammar, § 66, 2 d.] to be set free from the snare of the devil and to return to a sound mind ['one's sober senses']. (Philo, legg. alleg. ii. § 16
ἀνανήφει,
τουτ’ ἔστι μετανοεῖ; add Josephus, Antiquities 6, 11, 10;
Cebes tab. 9; Antoninus 6, 31; Chariton 5, 1.)
[See
ἀγρυπνέω, at the end.]
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