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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

  • καὶ νῦν πορεύου καὶ πατάξεισ τὸν Ἀμαλὴκ καὶ Ἱερὶμ καὶ πάντα τὰ αὐτοῦ καὶ οὐ περιποιήσῃ ἐξ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐξολοθρεύσεισ αὐτὸν καὶ ἀναθεματιεῖσ αὐτὸν καὶ πάντα τὰ αὐτοῦ καὶ οὐ φείσῃ ἀπ̓ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀποκτενεῖσ ἀπὸ ἀνδρὸσ καὶ ἕωσ γυναικὸσ καὶ ἀπὸ νηπίου ἕωσ θηλάζοντοσ καὶ ἀπὸ μόσχου ἕωσ προβάτου καὶ ἀπὸ καμήλου ἕωσ ὄνου. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 15:3)
  • ρῦσαι ἀγομένουσ εἰσ θάνατον καὶ ἐκπρίου κτεινομένουσ, μὴ φείσῃ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 24:11)
  • πλάτυνον τὸν τόπον τῆσ σκηνῆσ σου καὶ τῶν αὐλαιῶν σου, πῆξον, μὴ φείσῃ. μάκρυνον τὰ σχοινίσματά σου καὶ τοὺσ πασσάλουσ σου κατίσχυσον. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 54:2)
  • ΑΝΑΒΟΗΣΟΝ ἐν ἰσχύϊ καὶ μὴ φείσῃ, ὡσ σάλπιγγα ὕψωσον τὴν φωνήν σου, καὶ ἀνάγγειλον τῷ λαῷ μου τὰ ἁμαρτήματα αὐτῶν καὶ τῷ οἴκῳ Ἰακὼβ τὰσ ἀνομίασ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 58:1)
  • μὴ φείσῃ βίου. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode24)

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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