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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 76 times in 76 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 2 / 2 (Jer 15:5–Zec 11:6)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:5 - “Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem,
or who will grieve for you?
Who will turn aside
to ask about your welfare?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 17:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:17 - Be not a terror to me;
you are my refuge in the day of disaster.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:7 - Afterward, declares the LORD, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people in this city who survive the pestilence, sword, and famine into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies, into the hand of those who seek their lives. He shall strike them down with the edge of the sword. He shall not pity them or spare them or have compassion.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:14 - Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around,
all you who bend the bow;
shoot at her, spare no arrows,
for she has sinned against the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:3 - Let not the archer bend his bow,
and let him not stand up in his armor.
Spare not her young men;
devote to destruction[fn] all her army.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:2 - The Lord has swallowed up without mercy
all the habitations of Jacob;
in his wrath he has broken down
the strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
he has brought down to the ground in dishonor
the kingdom and its rulers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:17 - The LORD has done what he purposed;
he has carried out his word,
which he commanded long ago;
he has thrown down without pity;
he has made the enemy rejoice over you
and exalted the might of your foes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:21 - In the dust of the streets
lie the young and the old;
my young women and my young men
have fallen by the sword;
you have killed them in the day of your anger,
slaughtering without pity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:43 - “You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us,
killing without pity;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:11 - Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will withdraw.[fn] My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:4 - And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:9 - And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD, who strikes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:18 - Therefore I will act in wrath. My eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:5 - And to the others he said in my hearing, “Pass through the city after him, and strike. Your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:10 - As for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; I will bring their deeds upon their heads.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:5 - No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you, but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, on the day that you were born.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:17 - Nevertheless, my eye spared them, and I did not destroy them or make a full end of them in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 24:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:21 - ‘Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the yearning of your soul, and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:21 - But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they came.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:17 - Between the vestibule and the altar
let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep
and say, “Spare your people, O LORD,
and make not your heritage a reproach,
a byword among the nations.[fn]
Why should they say among the peoples,
‘Where is their God?’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:18 - Then the LORD became jealous for his land
and had pity on his people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:16 - The LORD roars from Zion,
and utters his voice from Jerusalem,
and the heavens and the earth quake.
But the LORD is a refuge to his people,
a stronghold to the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:10 - And the LORD said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:11 - And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:17 - Is he then to keep on emptying his net
and mercilessly killing nations forever?

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:6 - For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, declares the LORD. Behold, I will cause each of them to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none from their hand.”

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