Lexical Summary perispaō: to draw away Original Word: περισπάωTransliteration: perispaō Phonetic Spelling: (per-ee-spah'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to draw away Meaning: to draw away Strong's Concordance distractFrom peri and spao; to drag all around, i.e. (figuratively) to distract (with care) -- cumber. see GREEK peri see GREEK spao Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4049: περισπάωπερισπάω, περίσπω: imperfect passive 3 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, Luke 10:40 (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 1:13; Ecclesiastes 3:10. |
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