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Lexicon :: Strong's G5339 - pheidomai

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φείδομαι
Transliteration
pheidomai (Key)
Pronunciation
fi'-dom-ahee
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain affinity
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Strong’s Definitions

φείδομαι pheídomai, fi'-dom-ahee; of uncertain affinity; to be chary of, i.e. (subjectively) to abstain or (objectively) to treat leniently:—forbear, spare.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x

The KJV translates Strong's G5339 in the following manner: spare (9x), forbear (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x
The KJV translates Strong's G5339 in the following manner: spare (9x), forbear (1x).

  1. to spare

  2. to abstain

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
φείδομαι pheídomai, fi'-dom-ahee; of uncertain affinity; to be chary of, i.e. (subjectively) to abstain or (objectively) to treat leniently:—forbear, spare.
STRONGS G5339:
φείδομαι; future φείσομαι; 1 aorist ἐφεισάμην; deponent middle; from Homer down; the Sept. for חָמַל, חוּס, חָשַׂך (to keep back); to spare: absolutely 2 Corinthians 13:2; τίνος, to spare one (Winers Grammar, § 30, 10 d.; Buttmann, § 132, 15), Acts 20:29; Romans 8:32; Romans 11:21; 1 Corinthians 7:28; 2 Corinthians 1:23; 2 Peter 2:4f; to abstain (A. V. forbear), an infinitive denoting the act abstained from being supplied from the context: καυχᾶσθαι, 2 Corinthians 12:6 (μή φειδου — namely, διδάσκειν — εἰ ἔχεις διδάσκειν, Xenophon, Cyril 1, 6, 35; with the infinitive added, λέγειν κακά, Euripides, Or. 393; δρασαι τί τῶν τυραννικων, Plato, de rep. 9, p. 574 b.).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Acts
20:29
Romans
8:32; 11:21
1 Corinthians
7:28
2 Corinthians
1:23; 12:6; 13:2
2 Peter
2:4

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5339 matches the Greek φείδομαι (pheidomai),
which occurs 10 times in 9 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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“I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

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He did not even spare his own Son but gave him up for us all. How will he not also with him grant us everything?

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because if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.

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However, if you do get married, you have not sinned, and if a virgin[fn] marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have trouble in this life,[fn] and I am trying to spare you.

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I call on God as a witness, on my life, that it was to spare you that I did not come to Corinth.

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For if I want to boast, I wouldn’t be a fool, because I would be telling the truth. But I will spare you, so that no one can credit me with something beyond what he sees in me or hears from me,

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I gave a warning when I was present the second time, and now I give a warning while I am absent to those who sinned before and to all the rest: If I come again, I will not be lenient,

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For if God didn’t spare the angels who sinned but cast them into hell[fn] and delivered them in chains[fn] of utter darkness to be kept for judgment;

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and if he didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others,[fn] when he brought the flood on the world of the ungodly;

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