4689. spendó
Strong's Concordance
spendó: to pour out (as a drink offering), to make a libation
Original Word: σπένδω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: spendó
Phonetic Spelling: (spen'-do)
Short Definition: I pour out as a libation
Definition: I pour out as a libation.
HELPS Word-studies

4689 spéndō – properly, to make a libation (drink-offering). A libation (a liquid offering) is poured out to symbolize total surrender (even unto death). 4689 (spéndō) means "to pour out as a drink-offering, make a libation; figuratively, 'I am poured out or offered as a libation' (in the shedding of my life-blood), Phil 2:17" (Abbott-Smith); that is, the " 'outpouring' of one's life blood in service and suffering" (Souter).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4689: σπένδω

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.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
to pour out as a drink offering

Apparently a primary verb; to pour out as a libation, i.e. (figuratively) to devote (one's life or blood, as a sacrifice) ("spend") -- (be ready to) be offered.

Forms and Transliterations
εσπείσαμεν έσπεισαν έσπεισεν έσπενδον σπείσαι σπείσει σπείσεις σπένδει σπένδειν σπενδομαι σπένδομαι σπένδοντες spendomai spéndomai
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σπένδομαι — 2 Occ.

Philippians 2:17 V-PIM/P-1S
GRK: εἰ καὶ σπένδομαι ἐπὶ τῇ
NAS: if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice
KJV: and if I be offered upon
INT: if also I am poured out on the

2 Timothy 4:6 V-PIM/P-1S
GRK: γὰρ ἤδη σπένδομαι καὶ ὁ
NAS: For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time
KJV: now ready to be offered, and
INT: indeed already am being poured out and the

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