The corpus record

ἐκσπάω

ekspao

draw out, pull up, having drawn out their

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Where it lives

Amos 4 · 13/10k
Habacuc 1 · 9.14/10k
Zacharias 2 · 4.15/10k
Judices (cod. Al.) 3 · 2.05/10k
Thesmophoriazusae 1 · 1.42/10k
Ezechiel 4 · 1.38/10k
Psalmi 3 · 0.88/10k
Job 1 · 0.75/10k
Regnorum I 1 · 0.54/10k
Jeremias 1 · 0.36/10k
Iliad 2 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

ἐκσπάω · ekspaō — LSJ

draw out, pull up, having drawn out their

draw out, ἐξέσπασε μείλινον ἔγχος Il. 6.65; σπάρτον Hero Aut. 25.6; pull up, [χάρακα] Plb. 18.18.14 :—and so Med., ἐκσπασσαμένω δολίχʼ ἔγχεα having drawn out their spears, Il. 7.255 :—Pass., [τρίχες] ἐκσπῶνται Arist. Pr. 893a20, cf. Hero Aut. 16.2.

II remove by force

remove by force, τοὺς ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ παστοφόρους OGI 736.7 (Fayûm).

In the wild

ἐξέσπασεν · exespasen Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 2.510 (DIORISIS sentence 384)
ἐξέσπασε · exespase Iliad 6.65
ἐκσπασσαμένω · ekspassamenō Iliad 7.255
ἐκσπασθήσονται · ekspasthēsontai Septuaginta, Amos 3
ἐκσπάσῃ · ekspasēi Septuaginta, Amos 3
ἐξεσπασμένος · exespasmenos Septuaginta, Amos 4

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Where it came from

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