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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, διδάσκεινεἰ 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 1 / 2 (Gen 19:16–Jer 14:10)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:16 - But he hesitated. So the men seized his hand and the hand of his wife and the [fn]hands of his two daughters, for the compassion of Yahweh was upon him; and they brought him out and put him outside the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:6 - Then God said to him in the dream, “Indeed, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also [fn]held you back from sinning against Me; therefore I did not let you touch her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:12 - And He said, “Do not stretch out your hand against the boy, and do nothing to him; for now I know that you [fn]fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only one, from Me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:16 - and said, “By Myself I have sworn, declares Yahweh, because you have done this thing and have not spared your son, your only one,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:20 - ‘Now do not [fn]concern yourselves with your goods, for the [fn]best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:6 - Then she opened it and [fn]saw the child. And behold, the [fn]boy was crying. And she had pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:16 - “And you shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God will give over to you; your eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:8 - you shall not be willing to accept him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him; and you shall not spare him or conceal him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:13 - [fn]You shall not pity him, but you shall purge the blood of the innocent from Israel, that it may go well with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:21 - “Thus your eye shall not show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:12 - then you shall cut off her [fn]hand; [fn]you shall not show pity.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:3 -

“Indeed, He loves [fn]the people;

All [fn]Your holy ones are in Your hand,

And they [fn]followed in Your steps;

Everyone is bearing up Your words.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3 - ‘Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that he has, and do not spare him; but put to death both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:10 - “Behold, this day your eyes have seen that Yahweh had given you today into my hand in the cave, and some said to kill you, but my eye had pity on you; and I said, ‘I will not send forth my hand against my lord, for he is the anointed of Yahweh.’
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:4 -

“Now a visitor came to the rich man,

And he [fn]was unwilling to take from his own flock or his own herd,

To prepare for the traveler who had come to him;

Rather he took the poor man’s ewe lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:6 - “And he must make restitution for the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing and had no compassion.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:5 - Then the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom.” And all the people heard when the king commanded all the commanders concerning Absalom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:16 -

Then Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing Israel, for Joab restrained the people.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:7 -

But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the oath of Yahweh which was between them, between David and Saul’s son Jonathan.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:20 -

Then Gehazi, the young man of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Aramean, [fn]by not receiving from his hands what he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him and take something from him.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:15 -

And Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent word to them [fn]again and again by the hand of His messengers, because He had compassion on His people and on His habitation;

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:17 - Therefore He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who killed their choice men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on choice man or virgin, old man or infirm; He gave them all into his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:22 - And I said to the Levites that they should cleanse themselves and come as gatekeepers to keep the sabbath day holy. For this also remember me, O my God, and have compassion on me according to the greatness of Your lovingkindness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:10 -

“But it is still my comfort,

And I rejoice in unsparing pain,

That I have not at all hidden away the words of the Holy One.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:11 -

“Indeed I will not hold back my mouth;

I will speak in the distress of my spirit;

I will muse on the bitterness of my soul.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:5 -

“I could encourage you with my mouth,

And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:13 -

“His arrows surround me.

Without mercy He splits my kidneys open;

He pours out my gall on the ground.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:13 -

Though he [fn]desires it and will not forsake it,

And holds it to his palate,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:22 -

“For it will hurl at him without sparing;

He will surely try to flee from its [fn]power.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:10 -

“They abhor me and keep a distance from me,

And they do not [fn]hold back from spitting at my face.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:18 -

He holds back his soul from the pit,

And his life from passing over [fn]to death by a weapon.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:3 -

‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’

Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand,

Things too marvelous for me, which I did not know.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:13 -

Also keep back Your slave from presumptuous sins;

Let them not rule over me;

Then I will be [fn]blameless,

And I shall be acquitted of great transgression.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:13 -

He will have compassion on the poor and needy,

And the [fn]lives of the needy he will save.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:50 -

He leveled a path for His anger;

He did not hold back their soul from death,

But gave over their life to the plague,

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:34 -

For jealousy [fn]enrages a man,

And he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:19 -

When there are many words, transgression is unavoidable,

But he who holds back his lips has insight.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:24 -

He who holds back his [fn]rod hates his son,

But he who loves him [fn]disciplines him diligently.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:17 -

The highway of the upright is to turn away from evil;

He who guards his way keeps his [fn]soul.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:27 -

He who holds back his words [fn]has knowledge,

And he who has a cool spirit is a man of discernment.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:14 -

A gift in secret subdues anger,

And a bribe in the bosom, strong wrath.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:11 -

Deliver those who are being taken away to death,

And those who are stumbling to the slaughter, Oh hold them back.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:25 - For who can eat and who can have enjoyment outside of [fn]Him?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:18 -

And their bows will dash the young men to pieces,

They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb,

Nor will their eye pity [fn]children.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:6 -

Which used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes,

Which had dominion over the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:2 -

“Enlarge the place of your tent;

[fn]Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not hold back;

Lengthen your cords

And strengthen your pegs.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:1 -

“Call out from your throat, do not hold back;

Raise your voice like a trumpet,

And declare to My people their transgression

And to the house of Jacob their sins.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:9 -

In all their distress [fn]He was distressed,

And the angel of His presence saved them;

In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them,

And He lifted them and carried them all the ancient days.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:14 - “I will shatter them against each other, both the fathers and the sons together,” declares Yahweh. “I will not spare nor show pity nor have compassion so as not to ruin them.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:10 -

Thus says Yahweh to this people, “Even so they have loved to wander; they have not kept their feet in check. Therefore Yahweh does not accept them; now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.”


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