περισπάω, περίσπω: imperfect passive 3 person singular περιεσπᾶτο; from Xenophon down; to draw around (περί, III. 1), to draw away, distract; passive metaphorically, to be driven about mentally, to be distracted: περί τί, i. e. to be over-occupied, too busy, about a thing, Luk_10:40 (A. V. cumbered); in the same sense with τῇ διάνοια added, Polybius 3, 105, 1; 4, 10, 3; Diodorus 1, 74; περισπαν τόν ἀργόν δῆμον περί τάς ἔξω στρατείας, Dionysius Halicarnassus, Antiquities 9, 43; passive, to be distracted with cares, to be troubled, distressed (cf. Winer's Grammar, 23), for ςΘπΘδ, Ecc_1:13; Ecc_3:10.

περισπάω perispaō 1x to draw off from around; to wheel about; to distract; pass. to be distracted, over busied, Luk_10:40

περι -σπάω , -ῶ , [in LXX chiefly for H6030 ;] to draw around, draw off or away . Metaph ., to distract: pass ., Luk_10:40 .†

περισπάω [page 508] The late metaph. use of περισπάω = distract, worry, in Luk_10:40 is well attested in the Κοινή P Lond 24 .21 (B.C. 163) (= I. p. 32 f., UPZ i. p. 117 f.) δι᾽ ἣν αἰτίαν περισπώμενος ὑπὸ τῆς Ταθήμιος , ib. .24 ἀξιῶ οὖν σε μὴ ὑπεριδεῖν με περισπώμενον , and , ib. .29 ὅπως καὶ αὐτὸς τῆι Ταθήμει ἀποδοὺς μὴ περισπῶμαι , that I may be able to pay Tathemis and be no more worried, P Grenf I. 15 .6 (B.C. 146 or 135) ὅπ ]ως μὴ περισπώμεθα ἐπὶ τὰ [. . . . . . .] τα κριτήρια , P Tebt I. 43 .38 (B.C. 118) ὅπως μηθενὶ ἐπιτρέπηι τ [.]ν̣π̣[ . . ]ον περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν παρενοχλεῖν ἡμᾶς μηδὲ περισπᾶν κατὰ μηδεμίαν παρεύρεσιν , in order that no one may be allowed to molest us on the same charges or to annoy us on any pretext whatever (Edd.), and ib . .45 ἐὰν ἦι οἷα προφ <έρ >εται προνοηθῆναι ὡς οὐ περισπασθήσονται , if the allegations are correct see that he is not molested, where we find παρενοχληθήσεται written above περισπασθήσονται , as if the verb in the sense of distract was not sufficiently clear; cf. also P Oxy IV. 743 .36 (B.C. 2) ἐν τῷ δέ με περισπᾶσθαι (for constr. see proleg p. 14) οὐκ ἠδυνάσθην συντυχεῖν Ἀπολλω (νίῳ ), owing to my worries I was unable to meet Apollonius (Edd.) For the more literal sense draw off, draw away, cf. P Lond 43 .31 (B.C. 168) (= I. p. 31, UPZ i. p. 301. Selections p. 11) εἴπερ μὴ ἀναγκαιότερόν σ [ε ] περισπᾶι , and P Tor I. iv. 36 (B.C. 116) προηνέγκατο τὸν Ἑρμίαν κατὰ κενὸν περιεσπακέναι , where in his note (p. 139) the editor describes περισπᾷν as circumagere aliquem, eumque in diversa trahere decipiendi causa. In P Par 63 .91 (B.C. 164) (= P Petr III. p. 26) the verb is used of distraining furniture τὰς ἀποσκευὰς . . . περισπᾶν . For the subst., as in Tob_10:6 ΰ , cf. P Tebt II. 393 .16 (A.D. 150) περισπασμῶν χάρειν , on account of his anxieties, and M. Anton. xii. 2 (quoted s.v. περιαιρέω ). See also s.v. ἀπερισπάστως , and the citations from late Greek in Herwerden Lex. s.v. περισπάω . [Supplemental from 1930 edition] To the exx. of the subst. add BGU VII. 1571 .21 (A.D. 74 75) ἀντὶ περισπασμοῦ .

περισπάω fut. -σπάσω "to draw off from around, to strip off":—Mid. "to strip oneself of", τὴν τιάραν Xen. "to strip bare", Eur. "to draw round, wheel about", of an army, Polyb. : of a horse's bit, οὐ πάνυ π. "not pulling" it violently "round", Luc. :—Mid., περισπώμενος τὰς ὄψεις "turning about one's" eyes, id=Luc. "to draw off or away", Arist. :—Pass. "to be distracted or engaged in business", περί τι NTest.

περι-σπάω, -ῶ [in LXX chiefly for עָנָה ;] to draw around, draw off or away. Metaphorical, to distract: pass., Luk.10:40.† (AS)