UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: ἀδάπανος · δαπάνη · ἐκδαπανάομαι · προσδαπανάω

Sense 1: to spend, to pay out, to pay expenses

Semantic entry: 57.146

Semantic domains: Possess, Transfer, Exchange

Subdomains: Spend, Waste

Definition: to pay out money (or other assets) as a means of obtaining benefits or in payment for benefits

Notes: For another interpretation of δαπανάω in RV CO2 12:15 · LV CO2 12:15 · Read together CO2 12:15, see δαπανάω[c] 42.27: δαπανάω.

MRK 5:26: RV MRK 5:26 · LV MRK 5:26 · Read together MRK 5:26

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OET-RV MRK 5:26

26 and who’d endured much under various doctors despite spending everything she had. After all that, she’d ended up even worse,

OET-LV MRK 5:26

26 and having _suffered much under many doctors, and having _spent all the things by herself and having _been _benefitted nothing, but rather having _come to the worse,

LUK 15:14: RV LUK 15:14 · LV LUK 15:14 · Read together LUK 15:14

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OET-RV LUK 15:14

14 However after he’d used up all his funds, a terrible famine hit that country, and he started to become needy,

OET-LV LUK 15:14

14 But having _spent all things of _him, there _became a_ mighty _famine throughout the that country, and he began to _be _being _deficient.

All 4 recorded passages for this sense

MRK: RV MRK 5:26 · LV MRK 5:26 · Read together MRK 5:26

LUK: RV LUK 15:14 · LV LUK 15:14 · Read together LUK 15:14

ACT: RV ACT 21:24 · LV ACT 21:24 · Read together ACT 21:24

CO2: RV CO2 12:15 · LV CO2 12:15 · Read together CO2 12:15

Sense 2: to spend completely, to waste

Semantic entry: 57.149

Semantic domains: Possess, Transfer, Exchange

Subdomains: Spend, Waste

Definition: to spend completely, with the implication of uselessly, and therefore, to waste

Notes: In some languages ‘to waste’ may be expressed as ‘to use up and to get no benefit’ or ‘to have, but for no purpose.’

JAM 4:3: RV JAM 4:3 · LV JAM 4:3 · Read together JAM 4:3

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OET-RV JAM 4:3

3 and when you all do ask, it doesn’t get answered because you ask with wrong motives—trying get what you want to spend on your own wants.

OET-LV JAM 4:3

3 you _are _requesting and not you _all _are _receiving, because wrongly you _all _are _requesting, in _order _that in the gratifications of _you _all you _all _may _spend it.

Sense 3: to do anything, to exert great effort

Semantic entry: 42.27

Semantic domains: Perform, Do

Subdomains: Do, Perform

Definition: (a figurative extension of meaning of δαπανάω[a] ‘‘to spend,’ 57.146: δαπανάω) to exert great effort in doing something

Notes: It is possible, however, that δαπανάω in RV CO2 12:15 · LV CO2 12:15 · Read together CO2 12:15 should be understood in the literal sense and hence rendered ‘I will be glad to spend all I have on your behalf’ (see δαπανάω[a] 57.146: δαπανάω).

CO2 12:15: RV CO2 12:15 · LV CO2 12:15 · Read together CO2 12:15

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OET-RV CO2 12:15

15 I’m happy to invest everything I have, including all of myself, for the sake of your souls. Am I being loved less the more that I love you all?

OET-LV CO2 12:15

15 And I most _gladly will _be _spending and will _be _being _spent _out for the souls of _you _all.
If more _abundantly you _all loving, less I _am _being _loved?

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

δαπανάω

Form 1

Sense 1: to spend, to pay out, to pay expenses

Sense 2: to spend completely, to waste

Sense 3: to do anything, to exert great effort