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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 TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 20:29

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:29 - “I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing G5339 the flock;

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 8:32

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:32 - He who indeed did not spare G5339 His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things?

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:21 - for if God did not spare G5339 the natural branches, He will not spare G5339 you, either.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 7:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:28 - But if you marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have [fn]trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare G5339 you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 1:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:23 -

But I call God as witness [fn]to my soul, that to spare G5339 you I did not come again to Corinth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 12:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 12:6 - For if I do wish to boast I will not be foolish, for I will be speaking the truth; but I refrain G5339 from this, so that no one will consider me beyond what he sees in me or hears from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:2 - I have previously said when present the second time, and though now absent I say in advance to those who have sinned in the past and to all the rest as well, that if I come again I will not spare G5339 anyone,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:4 -

For if God did not spare G5339 angels who sinned, but cast them into the [fn]pit and delivered them to chains of darkness, being kept for judgment;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:5 - and did not spare G5339 the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a [fn]preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
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