Anonymous

περισπάω: Difference between revisions

From LSJ
T21
(strοng)
(T21)
Line 21: Line 21:
{{StrongGR
{{StrongGR
|strgr=from [[περί]] and [[σπάω]]; to [[drag]] [[all]] [[around]], i.e. ([[figuratively]]) to [[distract]] ([[with]] [[care]]): [[cumber]].
|strgr=from [[περί]] and [[σπάω]]; to [[drag]] [[all]] [[around]], i.e. ([[figuratively]]) to [[distract]] ([[with]] [[care]]): [[cumber]].
}}
{{Thayer
|txtha=περίσπω: [[imperfect]] [[passive]] 3rd [[person]] [[singular]] περιεσπᾶτο; from [[Xenophon]] [[down]]; to [[draw]] [[around]] ([[περί]], III:1), to [[draw]] [[away]], [[distract]]; [[passive]] [[metaphorically]], to be driven [[about]] mentally, to be [[distracted]]: [[περί]] τί, i. e. to be [[over]]-[[occupied]], [[too]] [[busy]], [[about]] a [[thing]], A. V. cumbered); in the [[same]] [[sense]] [[with]] τῇ [[διάνοια]] added, [[Polybius]] 3,105, 1; 4,10, 3; Diodorus 1,74; περισπαν [[τόν]] ἀργόν δῆμον [[περί]] τάς [[ἔξω]] στρατείας, [[Dionysius]] [[Halicarnassus]], Antiquities 9,43; [[passive]], to be [[distracted]] [[with]] cares, to be [[troubled]], distressed (cf. Winer's Grammar, 23), for עָנָה, Ecclesiastes 3:10.
}}
}}