Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Press thee and crush thee (sunexousin se kai apoqlibousin). Hold thee together, hold thee in (sunexw, see verse Luke 8:37).
Crush thee (apoqlibw) here only in the N.T., a verb used of pressing out grapes in Diodorus and Josephus. Mark 5:31 has sunqlibw, to press together.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 8:45:
Matthew 4:24
Luke 4:38
Luke 5:5
Luke 9:49
Luke 22:63
Acts 19:12
2 Corinthians 5:14
Philippians 1:23
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