Word Summary
anapsychō: to refresh
Original Word: ἀναψύχωTransliteration: anapsychō
Phonetic Spelling: (an-aps-oo'-kho)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to refresh
Meaning: to refresh
Strong's Concordance
refresh.
From ana and psucho; properly, to cool off, i.e. (figuratively) relieve -- refresh.
see GREEK ana
see GREEK psucho
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 404: ἀναψύχωἀναψύχω: 1 aorist
ἀνεψυξα;
to cool again, to cool off, recover from the effects of heat (
Homer, Odyssey 4; 568; Iliad 5, 795;
Plutarch, Aem. P. 25, etc.); tropically,
to refresh:
τινα, one's spirit, by fellowship, consolation, kindnesses,
2 Timothy 1:16. (intransitive,
to recover breath, take the air, cool off revive, refresh oneself, in the
Sept. (
Psalm 38:14 (); 2 Samuel 16:14; Exodus 23:12; 1 Samuel 16:23; etc., in) 2 Macc. 4:46 2Macc. 13:11; and in the later Greek writers.)