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Strong's #366 - ἀνανήφω
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- to return to soberness
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ἀνανήφω,
1. become sober again, come to one's senses, Arist. Mir. 847b9; ἐκ μέθης D.H. 4.35, cf. Lync. ap. Ath. 3.109e; ἐκ τοῦ οἴνου Nic.Dam. p.7 D.; return to sobriety of mind, 2 Timothy 2:26; recover from a swoon, Charito 3.1, D.Chr. 4.77.
2. trans., make sober again, Luc. Bis Acc. 17.
ἀνανήφω: (`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 (
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* ἀνα -νήφω ,
to return to soberness: metaph., 2 Timothy 2:26 (of. ἐκνήφω ).†
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