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Strong's #3627 - οἰκτείρω
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οἰκτειìρω
Also in certain tenses οἰκτερεìω oiktereō oyk-ter-eh'-o; from οἰκτος oiktos (pity); to exercise pity
οἶκτος, ὁ, (οἴζω)
1. pity, compassion, οἶ. δ' ἕλε λαὸν ἅπαντα Od. 2.81, cf. 24.438; οἶ. τις ἴσχει ἀποκτεῖναι a feeling of pity prevents him from.., Hdt. 5.92. γ, cf. Th. 3.40; οἴκτου πλέως S. Ph. 1074; ἔχειν οἶκτον φρενί Id. Aj. 525; ἐμοὶ γὰρ οἶ. δεινὸς εἰσέβη Id. Tr. 298; ἐμοὶ μὲν οἶ. δεινὸς ἐμπέπτωκέ τις Id. Ph. 965; θνητοὺς.. ἐν οἴκτῳ προθέμενος A. Pr. 241; δι' οἴκτου ἔχειν τινά E. Hec. 851; εἰσῆλθέ μ' οἶ. εἰ.. Id. Med. 931: c. gen. objecti, compassion for.., πόθος καὶ οἶ. τῆς πόλιος Hdt. 1.165, cf. E. Hec. 519: in A. Supp. 486, οἰκτίσας ἰδών (Herm.) shd. be read for οἶκτος εἰσιδών.
2. lamentation, piteous wailing, Simon. 4.3; οἶ. οὔτις ἦν διὰ στόμα A. Th. 51; τόνδε κλύουσαν οἶ. Id. Ch. 411 (lyr.); οἶκτον [οἰκτρὸν] ἀΐων Id. Supp. 59 (lyr.); κλύω τινὸς οἴκτου S. Tr. 864; οὐκ οἴκτου μέτα Id. OC 1636: pl., παθόντος οἴκτοις by the wailings of the sufferer, A. Supp. 386 (lyr.); ἄϊον οἴκτους οὓς οἰκτίζῃ E. Tr. 155 (anap.); τοὺς ὀδυρμοὺς ἐξαιρήσομεν καὶ τοὺς οἴ. Pl. R. 387d; οἴκτων λήγετε E. Ph. 1584, cf. And. 1.48, Pl. Ap. 37a, Lg. 949b.
οἰκτείρω; future (as if from οἰκτειρέω, a form which does not exist) as in the Sept. οἰκτειρήσω, for the earlier οἰκτείρω, see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 741; (Veitch, under the word; Winers Grammar, 88 (84); Buttmann, 64 (56)); (from οἶκτος pity, and this from the interjection οἱ, "Oh!); to pity, have compassion on": τινα, Romans 9:15 (from Exodus 33:19. Homer, Tragg., Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, Demosthenes, Lucian, Plutarch, Aelian; the Sept. for חָנַן and רָחַם). (Synonym: see ἐληω, at the end.)
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P Petr III. 56 (d).12 (iii/B.C.) ὤμοσά σοι τὸν πάτριον ὅρκον ἐπὶ τοῦ ποταμο ̣υ ̣̑, ib. 104.10 (B.C. 244–3) κε [χει ]ρογραφήκασι τὸν εἰθισμένον ὅρκον τοσούτου μεμισθῶσθαι ";they have written under their hands the usual oath that it was let for this amount"; (Edd.)—with reference to a farm holding, BGU III. 1002.15 (B.C. 55) ἐὰν δέ τίς σοι ὅρκος ἢ ἐπίδειξις ἐπιβληθῆι περὶ αὐτῶν, ἐγὼ αὐτὸς ἐπιτελέσωι κτλ.—a deed of sale, and P Ryl II. 88.26 (A.D. 156) ἢ ἔνοχος εἴην τῷ ὅρκ [ῳ, ";otherwise may I be liable to the consequences of the oath";—a common formula. Cf. also the unusual formula P Eleph 23.20 (B.C. 223–2) ε [ὐ ]ορκοῦ [ντι ] μέμ μ [ο ]ι [ε ]ὖ εἴη, ἐφιορκοῦντι δὲ ἔνοχον ̣ εἶναι τῆι ἀσεβείαι τοῦ ὅρκου. With Luke 1:73 cf. Pelagia-Legenden p. 13.9 ἐν ὅρκῳ ὅρκῳ εἶχεν τοῦ μὴ γεύσασθαί τι.
For an oath sworn on the Gospels see P Lond V. 1708.228 (A.D. 567?) ἑκάστου τούτων ἐνωμότως θεμένου ὅρκον ἐπάνω τῶν σεπτῶν μεγαλί (= εί)ων, and cf. P Mon I. 1.26 (A.D. 574) τὸν ἐνώμοτον καὶ φρικτὸν ὅρκον ἐπὶ τῶν θείων καὶ ἀχράντων καὶ σεπτῶν κειμηλίων ( ";relics"; ). On various forms of oaths from the inscrr. see Herwerden Lex, s.v. ὅρκος, and for the idea of ";fence,"; ";something that shuts you in"; (cf. the cognate ἕρκος), underlying the word cf. Murray Rise of the Greek Epic, p. 265 f. The dim. ὅρκιον is found in OGIS 453.25 (B.C. 39–35).
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