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Strong's #1600 - ἐκπετάννυμι
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ἐκπετ-άννῡμι,
1. fut. -πετάσω, spread out, of a sail, E. IT 1135 (lyr.); πώγωνα Luc. Tim. 54; χεῖρας LXX Isaiah 65:2; of wings, AP 5.178.10 (Mel.); τὰ ὦτα ἐξεπετάννυτο ὥσπερ σκιάδειον Ar. Eq. 1348; of a net, τὸ δὲ δίκτυον ἐκπεπέτασται Orac. ap. Hdt. 1.62; στέφος ἐξεπέτασσε scattered it to the winds, Bion 1.88.
2. metaph., ἐπὶ κῶμον ἐκπετασθείς wholly given up to the revel, E. Cyc. 497 (lyr.): pf. part. Pass. ἐκπεπταμένος wide open, κοῖλα καὶ ἐ. Hp. VM 22; of gaping wounds, Id. Off. 11; ἐ. τοῖς βλεφάροις Ael. Nahum 2:12.
ἐκ -πετάννυμι ,
[in LXX chiefly for H6566, as Isaiah 65:2 (hithp.);]
to spread out (as a sail), stretch forth: Romans 10:21(LXX).†
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For this NT ἅπ. εἰρ. (Romans 10:21 from Isaiah 65:2) = ";spread out,"; the ἐκ showing the action of the verb carried as far as it will go (cf. ἐκτείνω), cf. Kaibel 779.2—
Οὔριον ἐκ πρύμνης τις ὁδηγητῆρα καλείτω
Ζῆνα κατὰ προτόνων ἱστίον ἐκπετάσας.
See Anz Subsidia, p. 286.
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