- ἐπισπάω
- ἐπισπάω (σπάω) in our lit. ἐ. only mid. (which is found Hdt.+; Herm. Wr., ins, pap, LXX; TestReub 5:1; JosAs 5:9 cod. A [p. 46, 2 Bat.]; Philo; Jos., Ant. 14, 424, C. Ap. 2, 31) fut. 3 pl. ἐπισπάσονται (TestReub 5:1); 1 aor. ἐπεσπασάμην LXX.① to cause to come to oneself, draw to oneself lit. τινί τι an animal MPol 3:1 (cp. Diod S 17, 13, 2 ἐπισπᾶσθαι πληγάσ=draw the blows [of the enemies] to oneself [in order to die more quickly]).② to be responsible for bringing someth. on oneself, bring upon, fig. ext. of 1 (Hdt. 3, 7, 72; Polyb. 3, 98, 8; Anth. Pal. 11, 340, 2 ἔχθραν; OGI 13, 6 τ. κρίσιν; Wsd 1:12) τί τινι someth. (on) someone αἰχμαλωτισμὸν ἑαυτοῖς bring captivity on themselves Hv 1, 1, 8. ἀσθένειαν τῇ σαρκὶ αὐτῶν v 3, 9, 3. μεγάλην ἁμαρτίαν ἑαυτῷ m 4, 1, 8. ἑαυτῷ λύπην Hs 9, 2, 6.③ medical t.t. to pull the foreskin over the end of the penis, pull over the foreskin (Soranus, Gynaec. 2, 34 p. 79, 1 of a nurse: ἐπισπάσθω τὴν ἀκροποσθίαν) to conceal circumcision 1 Cor 7:18 (this special use of the word is not found elsewh., not even 4 Macc 5:2, where ἐπισπᾶσθαι means ‘drag up’, as 10:12). On epispasm [rabbinic מָשַׁךְ], as done by Hellenizing Israelites, esp. ephebes, to undo their circumcision s. 1 Macc 1:15; Jos., Ant. 12, 241; Billerb. IV 33f; MHengel, Judaism and Hellenism ’74, I 74, II 51f, n. 138 [lit.]; RHall, Epispasm—Circumcision in Reverse: BR 18/4, ’92, 52–57.—M-M.
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