Strong’s G5339 · Greek
φείδομαι
pheídomai · fi'-dom-ahee
Origin of uncertain affinity;
Meaning to be chary of, i.e. (subjectively) to abstain or (objectively) to treat leniently
In the King James Version forbear, spare.
In 9 verses of the King James Version
- Acts 20:29For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
- Romans 8:32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
- Romans 11:21For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
- 1 Corinthians 7:28But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
- 2 Corinthians 1:23Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
- 2 Corinthians 12:6For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
- 2 Corinthians 13:2I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
- 2 Peter 2:4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
- 2 Peter 2:5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.