1 Corinthians 7:27

δέδεσαι γυναικί μὴ ζήτει λύσιν· λέλυσαι ἀπὸ γυναικός μὴ ζήτει γυναῖκα
Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
Word Reference
Original Word Definitions
δέδεσαι
G1210 V-RPI-2S
deō
to bind (in various applications, literally or figuratively)
  • to bind tie, fasten
    • to bind, fasten with chains, to throw into chains
      • "metaphorically
      • Satan is said to bind a woman bent together by means of a demon, as his messenger, taking possession of the woman and preventing her from standing upright
        • "to bind, put under obligation, of the law, duty etc.
        • to be bound to one, a wife, a husband
        to forbid, prohibit, declare to be illicit
γυναικί
G1135 N-DSF
gynē
a woman; specially, a wife
  • a woman of any age, whether a virgin, or married, or a widow
    • "a wife
    • of a betrothed woman
μὴ
G3361 PRT-N
mē
(adverb) not, (conjunction) lest; also (as an interrogative implying a negative answer (whereas G3756 expects an affirmative one)) whether
  • no, not lest
ζήτει
G2212 V-PAM-2S
zēteō
to seek (literally or figuratively); specially, (by Hebraism) to worship (God), or (in a bad sense) to plot (against life)
  • to seek in order to find
    • to seek a thing
      • "to seek [in order to find out
    by thinking, meditating, reasoning, to enquire into"to seek after, seek for, aim at, strive after
to seek i.e., require, demand
  • to crave, demand something from someone
λύσιν·
G3080 N-ASF
lysis
a loosening, i.e., (specially), divorce
  • a loosing, setting free
    • of a prisoner
      • "of the bond of marriage, divorce
    release, ransoming, deliverance
    • of liquidating a debt
    means or power of releasing or loosing
λέλυσαι
G3089 V-RPI-2S
lyō
to ___%___loosen___%___ (literally or figuratively)
  • to loose any person (or thing) tied or fastened
    • bandages of the feet, the shoes,
      • "of a husband and wife joined together by the bond of matrimony"of a single man, whether he has already had a wife or has not yet married
    to loose one bound, i.e., to unbind, release from bonds, set free
    • of one bound up (swathed in bandages)
      • "bound with chains (a prisoner), discharge from prison, let go
    to loosen, undo, dissolve, anything bound, tied, or compacted together
    • an assembly, i.e., to dismiss, break up
      • "laws, as having a binding force, are likened to bonds"to annul, subvert"to do away with, to deprive of authority, whether by precept or act"to declare unlawful"to loose what is compacted or built together, to break up, demolish, destroy"to dissolve something coherent into parts, to destroy"metaphorically, to overthrow, to do away with
ἀπὸ
G575 PREP
apo
___%___off,___%___ i.e., away (from something near), in various senses (of place, time, or relation; literal or figurative)
  • of separation
    • of local separation, after verbs of motion from a place i.e., of departing, of fleeing
      • "of separation of a part from the whole
      • where of a whole some part is taken
      of any kind of separation of one thing from another by which the union or fellowship of the two is destroyed"of a state of separation, that is of distance
      • physical, of distance of place
        • "temporal, of distance of time
    of origin
    • of the place whence anything is, comes, befalls, is taken
      • "of origin of a cause
γυναικός
G1135 N-GSF
gynē
a woman; specially, a wife
  • a woman of any age, whether a virgin, or married, or a widow
    • "a wife
    • of a betrothed woman
μὴ
G3361 PRT-N
mē
(adverb) not, (conjunction) lest; also (as an interrogative implying a negative answer (whereas G3756 expects an affirmative one)) whether
  • no, not lest
ζήτει
G2212 V-PAM-2S
zēteō
to seek (literally or figuratively); specially, (by Hebraism) to worship (God), or (in a bad sense) to plot (against life)
  • to seek in order to find
    • to seek a thing
      • "to seek [in order to find out
    by thinking, meditating, reasoning, to enquire into"to seek after, seek for, aim at, strive after
to seek i.e., require, demand
  • to crave, demand something from someone
γυναῖκα
G1135 N-ASF
gynē
a woman; specially, a wife
  • a woman of any age, whether a virgin, or married, or a widow
    • "a wife
    • of a betrothed woman

δέδεσαι γυναικί μὴ ζήτει λύσιν· λέλυσαι ἀπὸ γυναικός μὴ ζήτει γυναῖκα
27
Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:12

Τοῖς δὲ λοιποῖς ἐγὼ λέγω οὐχ ὁ κύριος· εἴ τις ἀδελφὸς γυναῖκα ἔχει ἄπιστον καὶ αὕτη συνευδοκεῖ οἰκεῖν μετ' αὐτοῦ μὴ ἀφιέτω αὐτήν·
12
But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

1 Corinthians 7:20

ἕκαστος ἐν τῇ κλήσει ᾗ ἐκλήθη ἐν ταύτῃ μενέτω
20
Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
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