shere (to loose) · Rightly

Meaning

To loosen, abide, begin(P'al) · (Pael) to begin, open · (Ithpael) to be loosened

How it's translated

and they began 1
dwelling 1
loosed 1
loosened 1
and loosening of 1
to loosen 1

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

Where it's used most

Daniel 5
Ezra 1

2 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Daniel 3:25In contextHe answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
Daniel 5:6In contextThen the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Daniel 5:12In contextForasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.
Daniel 5:16In contextAnd I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.
Ezra 5:2Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them.

Aramaic dictionary

שְׁרָא shere · to loose

1) to loosen, abide, begin 1a) (P'al) 1a1) to loosen 1a2) to abide (from loosing girths for camp) 1b) (Pael) to begin, open 1c) (Ithpael) to be loosened

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

LOOSE, verb transitive

loos. [Gr.; Heb.]

To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening.“Canst thou loose the bands of Orion?” Job 38:31“Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them to me” Matthew 21:2
To relax.“The joints of his loins were loosed” Daniel 5:6
To release from imprisonment; to liberate; to set at liberty.“The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed” Isaiah 51:14
To free from obligation.“Art thou loosed from a wife? see not a wife” 1 Corinthians 7:27

All definitions and other forms of “loose”

To free from any thing that binds or shackles; as a man loosed from lust and pelf.
To relieve; to free from any thing burdensome or afflictive.“Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity” Luke 13:12
To disengage; to detach; as, to loose one's hold.
To put off.“LOOSE thy shoe from off thy foot” Joshua 5:15
To open.“Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?” Revelation 5:2
To remit; to absolve.“Whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven” Matthew 16:19

LOOSE, verb intransitive

To set sail; to leave a port or harbor.

“Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga, in Pamphylia” Acts 13:13

LOOSE, adjective

Unbound; untied; unsewed; not fastened or confined; as the loose sheets of a book.
Not tight or close; as a loose garment.
Not crowded; not close or compact.
Not dense, close or compact; as a cloth or fossil of loose texture.
Not close; not concise; lax; as a loose and diffuse style.
Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as a loose way of reasoning.
Not strict or rigid; as a loose observance of rites.
Unconnected; rambling; as a loose indigested play.
Of lax bowels.
Unengaged; not attached or enslaved.
Disengaged; free from obligation; with from or of.
Wanton; unrestrained in behavior; dissolute; unchaste; as a loose man or woman.
Containing unchaste language; as a loose epistle.

LOOSE, noun

Freedom from restraint; liberty.

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