Anapsycho means “refresh” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H404 — akaph (“crave”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G404 ἀναψύχω (anapsucho) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. anapsucho (an-aps-oo'-kho) v. 1. (properly) to cool off 2. (figuratively) to relieve It has 7 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include refreshed. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
anapsucho (an-aps-oo'-kho) v. 1. (properly) to cool off 2. (figuratively) to relieve [from G303 and G5594] KJV: refresh Root(s): G303, G5594
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G404. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to refresh
Usage: ἀνα-ψύχω [in LXX for נָפַשׁ ni., חָיָה, etc. (frequently in sense of revive, refresh oneself) ;] to refresh: with accusative of person(s), 2Ti.1:16 (MM, VGT, see word; Cremer, 588).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render anapsucho, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G404 (ἀναψύχω) appears 6 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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1 indexed usage in New Testament.
The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:
4 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Six days shalt thou do thy works, and on the seventh day there shall be rest, that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and that the son of thy maidservant and the stranger may be refreshed.
And it came to pass when the evil spirit was upon Saul, that David took his harp, and played with his hand: and Saul was refreshed, and it was well with him, and the evil spirit departed from him.
And the king, and all the people with him, came away and refreshed themselves there.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Whereupon Ptolemy taking the king aside into a certain gallery, as it were to take the air, brought him to be of another mind:
and that he would not suffer the people, that had even now been but a little refreshed, to be in subjection to the blasphemous nations.
First 7 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G404.
Six days shalt thou do thy works, and on the seventh day there shall be rest, that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and that the son of thy maidservant and the stranger may be refreshed.
And it came to pass when the evil spirit was upon Saul, that David took his harp, and played with his hand: and Saul was refreshed, and it was well with him, and the evil spirit departed from him.
And the king, and all the people with him, came away and refreshed themselves there.
Spare me, that I may be refreshed, Before I depart, and be no more.
The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:
Whereupon Ptolemy taking the king aside into a certain gallery, as it were to take the air, brought him to be of another mind:
and that he would not suffer the people, that had even now been but a little refreshed, to be in subjection to the blasphemous nations.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G404, grouped by book.
Anapsycho (Strong's G404) is a Greek word most simply glossed "refresh". anapsucho (an-aps-oo'-kho) v. 1. (properly) to cool off 2. (figuratively) to relieve
This page currently indexes 7 linked usages for Strong's G404 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G404 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as refreshed. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 4 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G404, with linked reader references where each row is available.