διασπᾶν (diaspan)

διασπᾶν is an Ancient Greek form of διασπάω, meaning “tear apart, break through”. It is the present active participle vocative singular masculine.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Phocion 13.2: … ες ἐσκεδάσθησαν καὶ ὁ Πλούταρχος ἔφυγε· καὶ τῷ χάρακι προσμίξαντες ἔνιοι τῶν πολεμίων ἐκκόπτειν ἐπειρῶντο καὶ διασπᾶν ὡς ἁπάντων κεκρατηκότες, ἐν τούτῳ δὲ τῶν ἱερῶν γενομένων, τοὺς μὲν εὐθὺς ἐκ τοῦ στρατοπέδου προσπεσόντες οἱ Ἀ …

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 188·5: … τυροῦντας τῇ πρὸς τὸ σωθῆναι σπουδῇ. Τῶν κανονικῶν τὰς πορνείας εἰς γάμον μὴ καταλογίζεσθαι, ἀλλὰ παντὶ τρόπῳ διασπᾷν αὐτῶν τὴν συνάφειαν. τοῦτο γὰρ καὶ τῇ Ἐκκλησίᾳ πρὸς ἀσφάλειαν λυσιτελές, καὶ τοῖς αἱρετικοῖς οὐ δώσει καθʼ ἡμ …

All forms of διασπάω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.