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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

  • εἴη δέ μου πόλισ τάφοσ, ἐφ̓ ἧσ ἐπὶ τειχέων ἡλλόμην ἐπ̓ αὐτῆσ, οὐ φείσομαι. οὐ γὰρ ἐψευσάμην ρήματα ἅγια Θεοῦ μου. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 6:10)
  • ἀτὰρ οὖν οὐδὲ ἐγὼ φείσομαι τῷ στόματί μου, λαλήσω ἐν ἀνάγκῃ ὤν, ἀνοίξω πικρίαν ψυχῆσ μου συνεχόμενοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 7:11)
  • εἴη δὲ ἰσχὺσ ἐν τῷ στόματί μου, κίνησιν δὲ χειλέων οὐ φείσομαι. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 16:5)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ οὐ φείσομαι ὑπὲρ Νινευὴ τῆσ πόλεωσ τῆσ μεγάλησ, ἐν ᾗ κατοικοῦσι πλείουσ ἢ δώδεκα μυριάδεσ ἀνθρώπων, οἵτινεσ οὐκ ἔγνωσαν δεξιὰν αὐτῶν ἢ ἀριστερὰν αὐτῶν, καὶ κτήνη πολλά (Septuagint, Prophetia Ionae 4:11)
  • διὰ τοῦτο οὐ φείσομαι οὐκέτι ἐπὶ τοὺσ κατοικοῦντασ τὴν γῆν, λέγει Κύριοσ. καὶ ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ παραδίδωμι τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ, ἕκαστον εἰσ χεῖρα τοῦ πλησίον αὐτοῦ καὶ εἰσ χεῖρα βασιλέωσ αὐτοῦ, καὶ κατακόψουσι τὴν γῆν, καὶ οὐ μὴ ἐξέλωμαι ἐκ χειρὸσ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Prophetia Zachariae 11:6)

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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