STRONGS G4689:
σπένδω: present passive
σπένδομαι; (cf. German
spenden (perhaps of the 'tossing away' of a liquid,
Curtius, § 296; but cf.
Vanicek, p. 1245f)); from
Homer down; the
Sept. for
נָסַך;
to pour out as a drink-offering, make a libation; in the N. T.
σπένδεσθαι,
to be offered as a libation, is figuratively used of one whose blood is poured out in a violent death for the cause of God:
Philippians 2:17 (see
θυσία, b. at the end);
2 Timothy 4:6.
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