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Loose
King James Dictionary
or LOOSE, loos. Gr. Heb.
1. To untie or unbind to free from any fastening.
Canst thou loose the bands of Orion? Job 38 .
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 .
3. To release from imprisonment to liberate to set at liberty.
The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed. Isaiah 51 .
4. To free from obligation.
Art thou loosed from a wife? see not a wife. 1 Corinthians 7 .
5. To free from any thing that binds or shackles as a man loosed from lust and pelf.
6. To relieve to free from any thing burdensome or afflictive.
Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. Luke 42 .
7. To disengage to detach as, to loose one's hold.
8. To put off.
Loose thy shoe from off thy foot. Joshua 5 .
9. To open.
Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? Revelation 5 .
10. To remit to absolve.
Whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven. Matthew 16 .
LOOSE, 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 42 .
LOOSE, a.
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.
With horse and chariots rank'd in loose array.
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.
Vario spends whole mornings in running over loose and unconnected pages.
9. Of lax bowels.
10. Unengaged not attached or enslaved.
Their prevailing principle is, to sit as loose from pleasures, and be as moderate in the use of them as they can.
11. Disengaged free from obligation with from or of.
Now I stand loose of my vow but who knows Cato's thought? Little used.
12. Wanton unrestrained in behavior dissolute unchaste as a loose man or woman.
13. Containing unchaste language as a loose epistle.
To break loose, to escape from confinement to gain liberty by violence.
To let loose, to free from restraint or confinement to set at liberty.
LOOSE, n. Freedom from restraint liberty.
Come, give thy soul a loose.
Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow.
We use this word only in the phrase, give a loose. The following use of it, "he runs with an unbounded loose," is obsolete.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Loose'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/l/loose.html.
