ἀνίημι (participle plural ἀνιέντες); 2 aorist subjunctive ἄνω, participle plural ἀνέντες; 1 aorist passive ἀνέθην; to send back; to relax; contextually, to loosen: τί, Act_16:26 (τούς δεσμούς, Plutarch, Alex. M. 73); Act_27:40. Tropically, τήν ἀπειλήν, to give up, omit, calm (?), Eph_6:9; (τήν ἔχθραν, Thucydides 3, 10; τήν ὀργήν, Plutarch, Alex. M. 70). to leave, not to uphold, to let sink: Heb_13:5, (Deu_31:6).

ἀνίημι aniēmi 4x (1) to loose, slacken, Act_27:40 ; to unbind, unfasten, Act_16:26 ; (2) to omit, dispense with, Eph_6:9 ; (3) to leave or neglect, Heb_13:5

ἀν -ίημι (ἀνά , ἵημι ), [in LXX for H7503 , H5375 , etc.;] 1. to send up, produce, to send back. 2. to let go, leave without support: Heb_13:5 ( cf. Deu_31:6 ; Hom ., Iliad., ii, 71). 3. to relax, loosen ( v. Field, Notes , 124 f .): Act_16:26 ; Act_27:40 ; hence, metaph ., to give up, desist from: Eph_6:9 .†

ἀνίημι [page 44] P Petr III. 53 ( p ) .4 (iii/B.C.) ἀνείεται λοιπογραφεῖσθαι , he is permitted to remain in arrears (Edd.). Syll 552 .29, .59 (late ii/B.C.) of school-boys let off ἐκ τῶν μαθημάτων . P Amh II. 99 ( b ) .9 (A.D. 179) βορρᾶ ἀνιμένη λιβὸς ἰδιωτικά , on the north dedicated land, on the west private properties (Edd.). So Cagnat IV. 292 .39 (Pergamon, c. B.C. 130) ἀνεῖναι δ [ὲ ] αὐτοῦ κ [αὶ τ ]έμενος , = consecrare (Ed.). P Oxy III. 471 .86 (ii/A.D.) γέλωτα πολὺν καὶ ἀνειμένον . . . γελᾶν , laughed long and freely (Edd.), ib. 503 .18 (A.D. 118) ἀνεῖναι admit, ib. 533 .10 (ii/iii A.D.) ἐὰν ἀνεθῶσι , if they are neglected. P Ryl II. 77 .30 (A.D. 192) κελεύσατε ὂ̣ ὲ̣δ̣ω̣κα ἱκανὸν ἀνεθῆναι . P Grenf II. 78 .21 (A.D. 307) ἀξιῶ . . . ἀνεθῆνα [ι ] released. P. Cattaoui vi. 18 (ii/A.D.) (= Chrest. II. p. 423) τἀ ἄλλα σοι ἀνίημι , concede. A literary effort celebrating the accession of Hadrian, P Giss I. 3 .8 ff. shows us loyal subjects γέλωσι καὶ μέθαις ταῖς ἀπὸ κρήνης τὰς ψυχὰς ἀνέντες γυμνασίων τε ἀλείμμασι (see Wilcken on the document, Archiv v. p. 249).

ἀνίημι [Etym: For quantities, ἀνι epic, ἀνι_- attic; but Hom. has ἀνι_ει, ἀνι_έμενος.] [Etym: The forms ἀνιεῖς, -εῖ are formed as if they were from ἀνιέω.] [Etym: The Homeric forms in ἀνεσ- are created as if from ἀν-έζω.] [Etym: The Ionic form ἀνέωνται is formed as if from ἀν-εόω.] "to send up or forth", Hom. , etc.; of the earth, "to make spring up", Hhymn. ; of females, "to produce", Soph. :— Pass. "to be sent up, produced", Aesch. , etc.; "to send up" from the grave or nether world, id=Aesch. , etc. "to send back, put back, open", Hom. , Eur. "to let go, leave", Hom. , etc.; c. gen. rei, δεσμῶν ἀνίει "loosed" them "from" bonds, Od. : "to let go unpunished", Xen. ἀν. τινί "to let loose at" one, ἀν. κύνας, Lat. canes immittere, Xen. ; hence, ἄφρονα τοῦτον ἀνέντες Il. : c. inf. "to set on or urge" to do a thing, Hom. ἀν. τινὰ πρός τι "to let go for" any purpose, Hdt. ; ἀν. τινὰ μανίας "to set free from" madness, Eur. "to let, allow" one to do a thing, c. acc. et inf., Hdt. , etc.: —so, ἀν. κόμην "to let" it hang, "loosen", Eur. Mid., c. acc., κόλπον ἀνιεμένη "baring her" breast, Il. ; αἶγας ἀνιέμενοι "flaying" goats, Od. "to let go free, leave untilled", of ground dedicated to a god, Thuc. :—Pass. "to devote oneself, give oneself up", Hdt. ; of animals dedicated to a god, which "are let range at large", id=Hdt. ; esp. in perf. pass. part. ἀνειμένος, Soph. , etc. "to slacken, relax, let down, unstring", Hdt. , Plat. :—then, "to remit, neglect, give up", Soph. , Thuc. , etc.:—Pass. "to be treated remissly", Thuc. so intr. in Act. "to slacken, abate", of the wind, Soph. , etc.; οὐδὲν ἀνιέναι not "to give way" at all, Xen. :—c. part. "to give up or cease" doing, ὕων οὐκ ἀνίει [ὁ θεός] Hdt. :—c. gen. "to cease from" a thing, Eur. , Thuc.

ἀν-ίημι (ἀνά, ἵημι), [in LXX for רָפָה, נָשָׂא, etc. ;] __1. to send up, produce, to send back. __2. to let go, leave without support: Heb.13:5 (cf. Deu.31:6; Hom., Iliad., ii, 71). __3. to relax, loosen (see Field, Notes, 124 f.): Act.16:26 27:40; hence, metaphorically, to give up, desist from: Eph.6:9.† (AS)