UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: πτύω

Sense 1: to reject, to have disdain for

Semantic entry: 34.37

Semantic domains: Association

Subdomains: Belong To, Be Included in the Membership of, Be Excluded From

Definition: (a figurative extension of meaning of ἐκπτύω ‘to spit out,’ not occurring in the NT) to reject, with the implication of a measure of disdain

Notes: In a number of languages ‘to reject’ is expressed idiomatically as ‘to throw away,’ ‘to push away,’ or ‘to turn one’s back toward.’

GAL 4:14: RV GAL 4:14 · LV GAL 4:14 · Read together GAL 4:14

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OET-RV GAL 4:14

14 Yet you didn’t mock or despise me, brothers and sisters, for this trial of my flesh, but rather you received me as God’s messenger like you might have received the messiah Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) himself.

OET-LV GAL 4:14

14 And you _all_ not _scorned the trial of _you _all in the flesh of _me, nor you _all _disdained, but as a_messenger of_god you _all _received me, as chosen _one /messiah Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa).

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἐκπτύω

Form 1

Sense 1: to reject, to have disdain for