ἀποσπάω

ἀποσπάω — apospáō

ἀποσπάω, ἀποσπῶ; 1 aorist ἀπέσπασα; 1 aorist passive ἀπεσπασθην; to draw off, tear away: τήν μάχαιραν, to draw one's sword, Mat 26:51 (ἐκσπαν τήν μάχαιραν (or ῤομφαίαν), 1Sa 17:51 (Alex., etc.); σπαν, 1Ch 11:11; Mar 14:47); ἀποσπᾶν τούς μαθητάς ὀπίσω ἑαυτῶν to draw away the disciples to their own party, Act 20:30 (very similarly, Aelian v. h. 13, 32). Passive reflexively: ἀποσπασθεντες ἀπ' αὐτῶν having torn ourselves from the embrace of our friends, Act 21:1; ἀπεσπάσθη ἀπ' αὐτῶν he parted, tore himself, from them about a stone's cast, Luk 22:41; cf. Meyer at the passage (In secular authors from (Pindar and) Herodotus down.)