Word Summary
ananēphō: to return to soberness, regain one's senses
Original Word: ἀνανήφωTransliteration: ananēphō
Phonetic Spelling: (an-an-ay'-fo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to return to soberness, regain one's senses
Meaning: to return to soberness, regain one's senses
Strong's Concordance
recover one's senses
From ana and nepho; to become sober again, i.e. (figuratively) regain (one's) senses -- recover self.
see GREEK ana
see GREEK nepho
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 366: ἀνανήφωἀνανήφω: (`in good authors apparently confined to the present'; 1 aorist
ἀνενηψα);
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
ἀνανηφει,
τουτ' ἐστι μετανόει; add
Josephus, Antiquities 6, 11, 10;
Cebes (
) tab. 9; Antoninus 6, 31; Chariton 5, 1.) (See ἀγρυπνέω, at the end.)