spendo - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4689 — matsoq (“narrow place”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4689 σπένδω (spendo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. spendo (spen'-do) v. 1. to pour out as a libation 2. (figuratively) to devote (one's life or blood, as a sacrifice) It has 21 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include sacrifice. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
spendo (spen'-do) v. 1. to pour out as a libation 2. (figuratively) to devote (one's life or blood, as a sacrifice) 3. "spend" [apparently a primary verb] KJV: (be ready to) be offered
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4689. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to pour a libation
Usage: σπένδω [in LXX chiefly for נָסַךְ hi. ;] to pour out as a drink-offering, make a libation; pass., figuratively, σπένδομαι, I am poured out or offered as a libation (in the shedding of my life-blood): Php.2:17 (see Lft., in l), 2Ti.4:6 (for exx. from π., see Milligan, Selections, 114 f.; MM, xxiii).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render spendo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4689 (σπένδω) appears 20 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
2 indexed usages in New Testament.
Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
17 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God spoke with him, even a pillar of stone; and offered a libation upon it, and poured oil upon it.
And thou shalt make its dishes and its censers, and its bowls, and its cups, with which thou shalt offer drink offerings: of pure gold shalt thou make them.
And thou shalt not offer strange incense upon it, nor an offering made by fire, nor a sacrifice; and thou shalt not pour a drink offering upon it.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Wherefore, setting up reasoning in opposition to his desire, he poured out the draft to God.
He stretched out his hand to the cup, And poured of the blood of the grape, He poured out at the foot of the altar A sweet-smelling savor unto the most high King of all.
First 21 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4689.
And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God spoke with him, even a pillar of stone; and offered a libation upon it, and poured oil upon it.
And thou shalt make its dishes and its censers, and its bowls, and its cups, with which thou shalt offer drink offerings: of pure gold shalt thou make them.
And thou shalt not offer strange incense upon it, nor an offering made by fire, nor a sacrifice; and thou shalt not pour a drink offering upon it.
And he made the furniture of the table, both the dishes, and the censers, and the cups, and the bowls with which he should offer drink offerings, of gold.
And they shall put on the table set forth for showbread a cloth all of purple, and the dishes, and the censers, and the cups, and the vessels with which one offers drink offerings; and the continual loaves shall be upon it.
And its drink offering, the fourth part of a hin to each lamb; in the holy place shalt thou pour strong drink as a drink offering to the Lord.
And the three mighty men broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well that was in Bethlehem in the gate: and they took it, and brought it to David, and he would not drink it, but poured it out before the Lord.
And the three broke through the camp of the Philistines, and they drew water out of the well that was in Bethlehem, which was in the gate, and they took it, and came to David: but David would not drink it, and poured it out to the Lord, and said,
Their children gather wood, and their fathers kindle a fire, and their women knead dough, to make cakes to the host of heaven; and they have poured out drink offerings to strange gods, that they might provoke me to anger.
And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be as a ruinous place, because of their uncleannesses in all the houses, wherein they burned incense upon their roofs to all the host of heaven, and poured drink offerings to strange gods.
and the Chaldeans shall come to war against this city, and they shall burn this city with fire, and shall burn down the houses wherein they burned incense on the roofs thereof to Baal, and poured drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me.
For we will surely perform every word that shall proceed out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drink offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, and our kings and princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and so we were filled with bread, and were well, and saw no evils.
And whereas we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured drink offerings to her, did we make cakes to her, and pour drink offerings to her, without our husbands?
Thus has the Lord God of Israel said; Ye women have spoken with your mouth, and ye fulfilled it with your hands, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drink offerings to her: full well did ye keep to your vows, and ye have indeed performed them.
Whereas I brought them into the land concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it them; and they looked upon every high hill, and every shady tree, and they sacrificed there to their gods, and offered there a sweet-smelling savor, and there they poured out their drink offerings.
Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshiped Daniel, and gave orders to offer to him gifts and incense.
They have not offered wine to the Lord, neither have their sacrifices been sweet to him, but as the bread of mourning to them; all that eat them shall be defiled; for their bread for their soul shall not enter into the house of the Lord.
Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
Wherefore, setting up reasoning in opposition to his desire, he poured out the draft to God.
He stretched out his hand to the cup, And poured of the blood of the grape, He poured out at the foot of the altar A sweet-smelling savor unto the most high King of all.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4689, grouped by book.
Strong's G4689 is a Greek entry for G4689 σπένδω (spendo). spendo (spen'-do) v. 1. to pour out as a libation 2. (figuratively) to devote (one's life or blood, as a sacrifice)
This page currently indexes 21 linked usages for Strong's G4689 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4689 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sacrifice. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 17 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4689, with linked reader references where each row is available.