5339. pheidomai
Strong's Concordance
pheidomai: to spare, forbear
Original Word: φείδομαι
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: pheidomai
Phonetic Spelling: (fi'-dom-ahee)
Definition: to spare, forbear
Usage: I spare, abstain, forbear.
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
a prim. verb
Definition
to spare, forbear
NASB Translation
refrain (1), spare (8), sparing (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5339: φείδομαι

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.).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
forbear, spare.

Of uncertain affinity; to be chary of, i.e. (subjectively) to abstain or (objectively) to treat leniently -- forbear, spare.

Forms and Transliterations
εφείδετο εφεισάμην εφεισατο εφείσατο ἐφείσατο εφείσω φείδεσθαι φείδεται φειδομαι φείδομαι φειδομενοι φειδόμενοι φειδομενος φειδόμενος φειδόμενός φείδονται φείσαι φείσαί φεισάμενος φείσασθαι φείσασθέ φεισεται φείσεται φείσεταί φείση φείσησθε φεισομαι φείσομαι φείσονται epheisato epheísato pheidomai pheídomai pheidomenoi pheidómenoi pheidomenos pheidómenos pheisetai pheísetai pheisomai pheísomai
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Acts 20:29 V-PPM/P-NMP
GRK: ὑμᾶς μὴ φειδόμενοι τοῦ ποιμνίου
NAS: in among you, not sparing the flock;
KJV: you, not sparing the flock.
INT: you not sparing the flock

Romans 8:32 V-AIM-3S
GRK: υἱοῦ οὐκ ἐφείσατο ἀλλὰ ὑπὲρ
NAS: He who did not spare His own Son,
KJV: He that spared not his own
INT: Son not spared but for

Romans 11:21 V-AIM-3S
GRK: κλάδων οὐκ ἐφείσατο μή πως
NAS: God did not spare the natural
KJV: if God spared not the natural
INT: branches not spared not at all

Romans 11:21 V-FIM-3S
GRK: οὐδὲ σοῦ φείσεται
KJV: he also spare not thee.
INT: neither you he should spare

1 Corinthians 7:28 V-PIM/P-1S
GRK: δὲ ὑμῶν φείδομαι
NAS: life, and I am trying to spare you.
KJV: but I spare you.
INT: moreover you spare

2 Corinthians 1:23 V-PPM/P-NMS
GRK: ψυχήν ὅτι φειδόμενος ὑμῶν οὐκέτι
NAS: to my soul, that to spare you I did not come
KJV: soul, that to spare you I came
INT: soul that sparing you not yet

2 Corinthians 12:6 V-PIM/P-1S
GRK: γὰρ ἐρῶ φείδομαι δέ μή
NAS: the truth; but I refrain [from] [this], so that no
KJV: but [now] I forbear, lest
INT: indeed I will say I refrain however lest

2 Corinthians 13:2 V-FIM-1S
GRK: πάλιν οὐ φείσομαι
NAS: again I will not spare [anyone],
KJV: I will not spare:
INT: again not I will spare

2 Peter 2:4 V-AIM-3S
GRK: ἁμαρτησάντων οὐκ ἐφείσατο ἀλλὰ σειραῖς
NAS: God did not spare angels
KJV: if God spared not the angels
INT: having sinned not spared but to chains

2 Peter 2:5 V-AIM-3S
GRK: κόσμου οὐκ ἐφείσατο ἀλλὰ ὄγδοον
NAS: and did not spare the ancient world,
KJV: And spared not the old
INT: world not spared but [the] eighth

Strong's Greek 5339
10 Occurrences


ἐφείσατο — 4 Occ.
φείδομαι — 2 Occ.
φειδόμενοι — 1 Occ.
φειδόμενος — 1 Occ.
φείσεται — 1 Occ.
φείσομαι — 1 Occ.

















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