Bible Lexicons

The late metaph. use of περισπάω = ";distract,"; ";worry,"; in Luke 10:40 is well attested in the Κοινή –P Lond 24.21 (B.C. 163) (= I. p. 32 f., UPZ i. p. 117 f.) δι᾽ ἣν αἰτίαν περισπώμενος ὑπὸ τῆς Ταθήμιος, ib. .24 ἀξιῶ οὖν σε μὴ ὑπεριδεῖν με περισπώμενον, and , ib..29 ὅπως καὶ αὐτὸς τῆι Ταθήμει ἀποδοὺς μὴ περισπῶμαι, ";that I may be able to pay Tathemis and be no more worried,"; P Grenf I. 15.6 (B.C. 146 or 135) ὅπ ]ως μὴ περισπώμεθα ἐπὶ τὰ [. . . . . . .] τα κριτήρια, P Tebt I. 43.38 (B.C. 118) ὅπως μηθενὶ ἐπιτρέπηι τ [.]ν ̣π ̣[ . . ]ον περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν παρενοχλεῖν ἡμᾶς μηδὲ περισπᾶν κατὰ μηδεμίαν παρεύρεσιν, ";in order that no one may be allowed to molest us on the same charges or to annoy us on any pretext whatever"; (Edd.), and ib. .45 ἐὰν ἦι οἷα προφ <έρ >εται προνοηθῆναι ὡς οὐ περισπασθήσονται, ";if the allegations are correct see that he is not molested,"; where we find παρενοχληθήσεται written above περισπασθήσονται, as if the verb in the sense of ";distract"; was not sufficiently clear; cf. also P Oxy IV. 743 .36 (B.C. 2) ἐν τῷ δέ με περισπᾶσθαι (for constr. see proleg p. 14) οὐκ ἠδυνάσθην συντυχεῖν Ἀπολλω (νίῳ), ";owing to my worries I was unable to meet Apollonius"; (Edd.)

For the more literal sense ";draw off,"; ";draw away,"; cf. P Lond 43.31 (B.C. 168) (= I. p. 31, UPZ i. p. 301. Selections p. 11) εἴπερ μὴ ἀναγκαιότερόν σ [ε ] περισπᾶι, and P Tor I.iv. 36 (B.C. 116) προηνέγκατο τὸν Ἑρμίαν κατὰ κενὸν περιεσπακέναι, where in his note (p. 139) the editor describes περισπᾷν as ";circumagere aliquem, eumque in diversa trahere decipiendi causa."; In P Par 63.91 (B.C. 164) (= P Petr III. p. 26) the verb is used of ";distraining"; furniture—τὰς ἀποσκευὰς. . . περισπᾶν. For the subst., as in Tobit 10:6 א, cf. P Tebt II. 393.16 (A.D. 150) περισπασμῶν χάρειν, ";on account of his anxieties,"; and M. Anton. xii. 2 (quoted s.v. περιαιρέω). See also s.v. ἀπερισπάστως, and the citations from late Greek in Herwerden Lex. s.v. περισπάω.

[Supplemental from 1930 edition]

To the exx. of the subst. add BGU VII. 1571.21 (A.D. 74–75) ἀντὶ περισπασμοῦ.

 

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