Release
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) A device adapted to hold or release a device or mechanism as required;
(2): ( n.) Relief from care, pain, or any burden.
(3): ( n.) The act or manner of ending a sound.
(4): ( n.) A catch on a motor-starting rheostat, which automatically releases the rheostat arm and so stops the motor in case of a break in the field circuit; also, the catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, which acts in case of an overload.
(5): ( v. t.) To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
(6): ( n.) To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit.
(7): ( n.) To let loose again; to set free from restraint, confinement, or servitude; to give liberty to, or to set at liberty; to let go.
(8): ( n.) To relieve from something that confines, burdens, or oppresses, as from pain, trouble, obligation, penalty.
(9): ( n.) In the block-signaling system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.
(10): ( n.) To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of; as, to release an ordinance.
(11): ( n.) Discharge from obligation or responsibility, as from debt, penalty, or claim of any kind; acquittance.
(12): ( n.) A giving up or relinquishment of some right or claim; a conveyance of a man's right in lands or tenements to another who has some estate in possession; a quitclaim.
(13): ( n.) The act of opening the exhaust port to allow the steam to escape.
(14): ( n.) The act of letting loose or freeing, or the state of being let loose or freed; liberation or discharge from restraint of any kind, as from confinement or bondage.
King James Dictionary [2]
RELE'ASE,
1. To set free from restraint of any kind, either physical or moral to liberate from prison, confinement or servitude.
Matthew 15 . Mark 15 .
2. To free from pain, care, trouble, grief, &c. 3. To free from obligation or penalty as, to release one from debt, from a promise or covenant. 4. To quit to let go, as a legal claim as, to release a debt or forfeiture. Deuteronomy 15 . 5. To discharge or relinquish a right to lands or tenements, by conveying it to another that has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession when one co-parcener releases his right to the other or the mortgagee releases his claim to the mortgager. 6. To relax. Not in use.
RELE'ASE, n.
1. Liberation or discharge from restraint of any kind, as from confinement or bondage. 2. Liberation from care, pain or any burden. 3. Discharge from obligation or responsibility, as from debt, penalty or claim of any kind acquittance. 4. In law, a release or deed of release is a conveyance of a man's right in lands or tenements to another who has some estate in possession a quitclaim. The efficient words in such an instrument are, "remised, released, and forever quitclaimed."
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
"to loose from," is translated "to release" in Matthew 18:27 , RV (AV, "loosed"); 27:15,17,21,26; Mark 15:6,9,11,15; Luke 6:37 (twice), RV (AV, "forgive" and "ye shall be forgiven"); 23:16 (ver. 17, in some mss.),18,20,25; 23:22, RV (AV, "let ... go"); John 18:39 (twice); 19:10; in John 19:12 , in the 1st part, AV and RV; in the 2nd part, RV, "release" (AV, "let ... go"); so in Acts 3:13 . See Depart , Dismiss.
Luke 4:18Deliverance.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
rḗ - lēs ´: (1) The forgiveness of a debt ( שׁמטּה , shemiṭṭah ( Deuteronomy 15:1 , Deuteronomy 15:2 , Deuteronomy 15:9; Deuteronomy 31:10; see Jubilee Year )), with verb shāmaṭ , "to release," Deuteronomy 31:2 , Deuteronomy 31:3 . (2) To exempt from taxation or military service (הנחה , hănāḥāh , "release," "rest" ( Esther 2:18 )). Some would render "granted a holiday." (3) To set a prisoner or slave at liberty (ἀπολύω , apolúō , "to let go free" ( Matthew 27:15 parallel John 19:10 ), etc.).
