4689 spéndō – properly, to make a libation (drink-offering). A libation (a liquid offering) is poured out to symbolize total surrender (even unto death). 4689 (spéndō) means "to pour out as a drink-offering, make a libation; figuratively, 'I am poured out or offered as a libation' (in the shedding of my life-blood), Phil 2:17" (Abbott-Smith); that is, the " 'outpouring' of one's life blood in service and suffering" (Souter).

STRONGS NT 4689: σπένδω

σπένδω: present passive σπένδομαι; (cf. German spenden (perhaps of the 'tossing away' of a liquid, Curtius, § 296; but cf. Vanicek, p. 1245f)); from Homer down; the Sept. for נָסַך; to pour out as a drink-offering, make a libation; in the N. T. σπένδεσθαι, to be offered as a libation, is figuratively used of one whose blood is poured out in a violent death for the cause of God: Philippians 2:17 (see θυσία, b. at the end); 2 Timothy 4:6.



to pour out as a drink offering

Apparently a primary verb; to pour out as a libation, i.e. (figuratively) to devote (one's life or blood, as a sacrifice) ("spend") -- (be ready to) be offered.

σπείρῃ — 1 Occ.
σπείρει — 1 Occ.
σπείρειν — 4 Occ.
σπείρεις — 3 Occ.
σπείρεται — 6 Occ.
σπείρων — 11 Occ.
σπειρόμενοι — 2 Occ.
σπείροντι — 1 Occ.
σπείρουσιν — 2 Occ.
σπεκουλάτορα — 1 Occ.
σπέρμα — 24 Occ.
σπέρμασιν — 1 Occ.
σπέρματι — 7 Occ.
σπερμάτων — 3 Occ.
σπέρματος — 8 Occ.
σπερμολόγος — 1 Occ.
ἔσπευδεν — 1 Occ.
σπεύδοντας — 1 Occ.
σπεύσαντες — 1 Occ.
σπεύσας — 2 Occ.