STRONGS G1609:
ἐκπτύω: 1 aorist
ἐξέπτυσα;
to spit out (Homer, Odyssey 5, 322, etc.); tropically,
to reject, spurn, loathe:
τί,
Galatians 4:14, in which sense the Greeks used
καταπτύειν,
προσπτύειν,
πτύειν, and Philo
παραπτύειν; cf. Kypke and
Loesner [or Ellicott] on Galatians, the passage cited;
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 17.
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