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 ἐσάλπισεν Ἰωὰβ ἐν κερατίνῃ, καὶ ἀπέστρεψεν ὁ λαὸσ τοῦ μὴ διώκειν ὀπίσω Ἰσραήλ, ὅτι ἐφείδετο Ἰωὰβ τοῦ λαοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 18:16)
  • καὶ ἀπέστειλεν ὁ Θεὸσ τῶν πατέρων αὐτῶν διὰ τοῦ ἀγγέλου αὐτοῦ μετακαλέσαι αὐτούσ, καθότι ἐφείδετο αὐτῶν καὶ τοῦ σκηνώματοσ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 1:48)
  • ὁ γὰρ Ἀγησίλαοσ ἐφορεύων, ἀπηλλαγμένοσ οἷσ ταπεινὸσ ἦν πρότερον, οὐδενὸσ ἐφείδετο φέροντοσ ἀργύριον ἀδικήματοσ, ἀλλὰ μῆνα τρισκαιδέκατον, οὐκ ἀπαιτούσησ τότε τῆσ περιόδου, παρὰ τὴν νενομισμένην τάξιν τῶν χρόνων ἐνέβαλε τοῖσ τέλεσι καὶ παρέπραττε, δεδιὼσ δὲ τοὺσ ἀδικουμένουσ καὶ μισούμενοσ ὑπὸ πάντων ἔτρεφε μαχαιροφόρουσ, καὶ φυλαττόμενοσ ὑπὸ τούτων κατέβαινεν εἰσ τὸ ἀρχεῖον. (Plutarch, Agis, chapter 16 1:1)
  • πικρῶσ δὲ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ κακούργουσ κολάζων ἐφείδετο τῶν λωποδυτῶν, ὅπωσ παύσωνται οἱ Συρακούσιοι τοῦ δειπνεῖν καὶ μεθύσκεσθαι μετ’ ἀλλήλων. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 71)
  • ὁ δὲ πάντων ἐφείδετο, καὶ μάλιστα διὰ τούτων τοὺσ ἔτι λανθάνοντασ ἐξιχνεύων καὶ λαμβάνων ἐκόλαζεν ὡσ αὐτοὺσ ἑαυτοῖσ ἀνήκεστα συνειδότασ. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 27 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. to spare

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Derived

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

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