Dictionaries :: Let (Alone, Go)

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Let (Alone, Go):

for the meanings of which see LEAVE, No. 1, frequently denotes "to let, suffer, permit," e.g., Mat 5:40 (translated "let... have"); 7:4; 13:30; 15:14; 27:49 and Mar 15:36, RV, "let be," probably short for "let us see" (Moulton and Milligan, Vocab.); Mar 7:27; 11:6 ("let... go"); 14:6 ("let... alone"); so Luk 13:8; Jhn 11:48; in Act 5:38 (where some mss. have eao, "to permit, let, suffer"); in Jhn 11:44; 18:8 ("let"); 1Cr 7:11, 12, RV, "let... leave," AV, "let... put away;" 1Cr 7:13 ("let... leave").

Let (Alone, Go):

for the meanings of which see LEAVE (b), is translated "let (me)" in Luk 9:61. AV, RV, "suffer (me)."

Let (Alone, Go):

signifies "to set free, release, loose" (apo, "from," luo, "to loose"), e.g., Luk 13:12; Jhn 19:10; forgive, Luk 6:37; to release, dismiss, send away, translated "to let go," e.g., in Luk 14:4; in some mss. Luk 22:68; in Luk 23:22, Jhn 19:12; Act 3:13, AV, "let... go" (RV, "release"); in Act 4:21, "they let... go;" in Act 4:23 (Passive Voice), "being let go;" Act 5:40; in Act 15:33, AV, "let go" (RV, "dismissed"); Act 16:35, 36; 17:9; in Act 23:22, RV, "let... go" (AV, "let... depart"); in Act 28:18, AV, "let... go" (RV, "set... at liberty").
See DISMISS.

Let (Alone, Go):

"to let," occurs in Act 27:32.
See SUFFER.

Note: In Act 2:29, the impersonal verb exesti, "it is permitted, it is lawful," is rendered "let me," AV (RV and AV, marg., "I may").