Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

φείδομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φείδομαι φείσομαι

Structure: φείδ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to spare
  2. to spare, not destroy, to spare, be merciful
  3. to spare, to refrain from using, use sparingly, taking care, refrain from
  4. to be sparing, be thrifty, live thriftily, sparingly
  5. to draw back from, shrink, to spare or cease, forbear

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ ἐξαπέστειλε Κύριοσ ὁ Θεὸσ τῶν πατέρων αὐτῶν ἐν χειρὶ τῶν προφητῶν αὐτοῦ ὀρθρίζων καὶ ἀποστέλλων τοὺσ ἀγγέλουσ αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἦν φειδόμενοσ τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἁγιάσματοσ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 36:23)
  • τίσ γάρ ἐστιν ὁ κρύπτων σε βουλήν̣ φειδόμενοσ δὲ ρημάτων, καὶ σὲ οἴεται κρύπτειν̣ τίσ δὲ ἀναγγελεῖ μοι ἃ οὐκ ᾔδειν, μεγάλα καὶ θαυμαστά, ἃ οὐκ ἐπιστάμην̣ (Septuagint, Liber Iob 42:3)
  • ἐκ πολυλογίασ οὐκ ἐκφεύξῃ ἁμαρτίαν, φειδόμενοσ δὲ χειλέων νοήμων ἔσῃ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 10:20)
  • δόσισ λάθριοσ ἀνατρέπει ὀργάσ, δώρων δὲ ὁ φειδόμενοσ θυμὸν ἐγείρει ἰσχυρόν. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 21:13)
  • μὴ γενηθῇσ μοι εἰσ ἀλλοτρίωσιν φειδόμενόσ μου ἐν ἡμέρᾳ πονηρᾷ. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 17:13)

Synonyms

  1. to spare

Related

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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