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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

  • εἰπὸν πρὸσ τὸν οἶκον τοῦ Ἰσραήλ. τάδε λέγει Κύριοσ. ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ βεβηλῶ τὰ ἅγιά μου, φρύαγμα ἰσχύοσ ὑμῶν, ἐπιθυμήματα ὀφθαλμῶν ὑμῶν, καὶ ὑπὲρ ὧν φείδονται αἱ ψυχαὶ ὑμῶν. καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ ὑμῶν καὶ αἱ θυγατέρεσ ὑμῶν, οὓσ ἐγκατελίπετε, ἐν ρομφαίᾳ πεσοῦνται. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 24:21)
  • καὶ οὐδὲ τοῦ ἐλαίου ἕνεκα φείδονται μὴ μολύνεσθαι. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 1:6)
  • εἰδότασ γὰρ τοὺσ μαχομένουσ πρὸσ αὑτοὺσ ὅτι φείδονται μὲν τῶν ἐνδιδόντων, ἀναιροῦσι δὲ τοὺσ ὑφισταμένουσ, τοῦ μένειν τὸ φεύγειν ὠφελιμώτερον ἡγήσεσθαι. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 303)
  • εἰδότασ γὰρ τοὺσ μαχομένουσ πρὸσ αὑτοὺσ ὅτι φείδονται μὲν τῶν ἐνδιδόντων, ἀναιροῦσι δὲ τοὺσ ὑφισταμένουσ, τοῦ μένειν τὸ φεύγειν ὠφελιμώτερον ἡγήσεσθαι. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 30 1:1)
  • "θύωμεν, ὅτι τῆσ τοῦ στρατηγοῦ μανίασ καὶ ἀπονοίασ τὴν δίκην εἰσ τοὺσ στρατιώτασ οὐ τρέπουσιν, ἀλλὰ φείδονται τῆσ πόλεωσ. (Plutarch, Cato the Younger, chapter 51 2:1)

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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