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To loose

שְׁרָאStrong’s H8281

shere (she-re)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Shere is the Hebrew word usually translated “lets loose it” and “set free you”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.”
Job 37:3 KJV
Meaning
  1. To loosen, abide, begin(P'al) · (Pael) to begin, open · (Ithpael) to be loosened
How it's translated
  • he lets loose it 1
  • i will set free you 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Job 1
  • Jeremiah 1

2 books in all.

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Hebrew 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.]

  1. 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
  2. To relax.“The joints of his loins were loosed” Daniel 5:6
  3. To release from imprisonment; to liberate; to set at liberty.“The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed” Isaiah 51:14
  4. 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”
  1. To free from any thing that binds or shackles; as a man loosed from lust and pelf.
  2. To relieve; to free from any thing burdensome or afflictive.“Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity” Luke 13:12
  3. To disengage; to detach; as, to loose one's hold.
  4. To put off.“LOOSE thy shoe from off thy foot” Joshua 5:15
  5. To open.“Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?” Revelation 5:2
  6. 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.

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

LOOSE, adjective

  1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not fastened or confined; as the loose sheets of a book.
  2. Not tight or close; as a loose garment.
  3. Not crowded; not close or compact.
  4. Not dense, close or compact; as a cloth or fossil of loose texture.
  5. Not close; not concise; lax; as a loose and diffuse style.
  6. Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as a loose way of reasoning.
  7. Not strict or rigid; as a loose observance of rites.
  8. Unconnected; rambling; as a loose indigested play.
  9. Of lax bowels.
  10. Unengaged; not attached or enslaved.
  11. Disengaged; free from obligation; with from or of.
  12. Wanton; unrestrained in behavior; dissolute; unchaste; as a loose man or woman.
  13. 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.

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