φείδομαι: Difference between revisions

|txtha=[[future]] [[φείσομαι]]; 1st aorist [[ἐφεισάμην]]; deponent [[middle]]; from [[Homer]] [[down]]; the Sept. for חָמַל, חוּס, חָשַׂך (to [[keep]] [[back]]); to [[spare]]: [[absolutely]] τίνος, to [[spare]] [[one]] (Winer s Grammar, § 30,10d.; Buttmann, § 132,15), to [[abstain]] (A. V. [[forbear]]), an infinitive denoting the [[act]] abstained from [[being]] supplied from the context: καυχᾶσθαι, μή φειδου — [[namely]], διδάσκειν — εἰ ἔχεις διδάσκειν, [[Xenophon]], Cyril 1,6, 35; [[with]] the infinitive added, λέγειν κακά, [[Euripides]], Or. 393; δρασαι τί [[τῶν]] τυραννικων, [[Plato]], de rep. 9, p. 574b.).