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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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Unchecked Copy Box Act 20:29

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:29 - For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing G5339 the flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 8:32

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:32 - He that spared G5339 not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:21 - For if God spared G5339 not the natural branches, take heed lest he G5339 ➔ also spare G5339 not thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 7:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:28 - But 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 G5339 you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 1:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:23 - Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare G5339 you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 12:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 12:6 - For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, G5339 lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:2 - I 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 G5339 ➔ not spare: G5339

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:4 - For if God spared G5339 not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:5 - And spared G5339 not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
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