- σπαράσσω
- σπαράσσω 1 aor. ἐσπάραξα. Pass.: aor. 3 pl. ἐσπαράχθησαν 2 Km 22:8; pf. ptc. nom. pl. fem. ἐσπαραγμέναι 3 Macc 4:6 (orig. ‘tear, pull to and fro, rend’; Aristoph., Ran. 424 τὰς γνάθους; Diod S 8, 32, 3 and 19, 34, 3 τὰς τρίχας; Chariton 3, 10, 4 τὰς κόμας; Jos., Ant. 11, 141 τὴν κεφαλήν; Da 8:7 ἐσπάραξεν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν.—The word in another sense goes back to Aeschyl. [Prom. 1018, Zeus will shatter a jagged prominence]; also PPetr II, 17, 4, 2; 6; LXX, Philo) τινά someone (Aristoph., Acharn. 688 ἄνδρα σπαράττων καὶ ταράττων; s. Herodas 5, 57 ‘handle roughly’; JosAs 12:10; Jos., Ant. 13, 233) shake to and fro an unclean spirit convulses the person in whom it dwells (ἄνθρωπος σπαραττόμενος of an attack: Cyranides p. 59, 15) Mk 1:26; 9:20 v.l.; Lk 9:39. W. acc. of pers. to be supplied Mk 9:26.—B. 566. DELG. M-M.
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