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To restore

ἀνακαινίζωStrong’s G0340

anakainizō

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Anakainizō is the Greek word usually translated “restore”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.”
Hebrews 6:6 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “restore”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • to restore 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

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  • Hebrews 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    ἀνακαινίζω anakainizō · to restore

    ἀνα-καινίζω (καινός), [in LXX: 2Ch.15:8, Psa.103:5 104:30, La 5:21 (חָדַשׁ pi., hith)., Psa.39:2 (עָכַר ni.), 1Ma.6:9 * ;] to renew: Heb.6:6 (Isocr., Plut.).† (AS)

    From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “restore” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    RESTO'RE, verb transitive

    [Latin restauro. This is a compound of re and the root of store, story, history. The primary sense is to set, to lay or to throw, as in Gr. solid.]

    1. To return to a person, as a specific thing which he has lost, or which has been taken from him and unjustly detained.“Now therefore restore to the man his wife” Genesis 20:7
    2. To replace; to return; as a person or thing to a former place.“Pharaoh shall restore thee to thy place” Genesis 40:13
    3. To bring back.
    4. To bring back or recover from lapse, degeneracy, declension or ruin to its former state.
    All definitions and other forms of “restore”
    1. To heal; to cure; to recover from disease.“His hand was restored whole like as the other” Matthew 12:13
    2. To make restitution or satisfaction for a thing taken, by returning something else, or something of different value.“He shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep” Exodus 22:1
    3. To give for satisfaction for pretended wrongs something not taken. Psalms 69:4
    4. To repair; to rebuild; as, to restore and to build Jerusalem. Daniel 9:25
    5. To revive; to resuscitate; to bring back to life.“Whose son he had restored to life” 2 Kings 8:1
    6. To return or bring back after absence. Hebrews 13:19
    7. To bring to a sense of sin and amendment of life.
    8. To renew or re-establish after interruption; as, peace is restored.
    9. To recover or renew, as passages of an author obscured or corrupted; as, to restore the true reading.

    RE'STORE, verb transitive

    [re and store.]

    To store again. The goods taken out were restored.

      Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.