Lexical Summary aspondos: without libation, without truce, admitting of no truce Original Word: ἄσπονδοςTransliteration: aspondos Phonetic Spelling: (as'-pon-dos) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: without libation, without truce, admitting of no truce Meaning: without libation, without truce, admitting of no truce Strong's Concordance implacable, irreconcilableFrom a (as a negative particle) and a derivative of spendo; literally, without libation (which usually accompanied a treaty), i.e. (by implication) truceless -- implacable, truce-breaker. see GREEK a see GREEK spendo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 786: ἄσπονδοςἄσπονδος, ἀσπονδον (σπονδή a libation, which, as a kind of sacrifice, accompanied the making of treaties and compacts; cf. Latinspondere); (from Thucydides down); 1. without a treaty or covenant; of things not mutually agreed upon, e. g. abstinence from hostilities, Thucydides 1, 37, etc. 2. that cannot be persuaded to enter into a covenant, implacable (in this sense from Aeschylus down; especially in the phrase ἄσπονδος πόλεμος, Dem. pro cor., p. 314, 16; Polybius 1, 65, 6; (Philo de sacrif. § 4); Cicero, ad Att. 9, 10, 5; (cf. Trench, § lii.)): joined with ἄστοργος, Romans 1:31 Rec.; 2 Timothy 3:3. |
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