G5339

φείδομαι

pheidomaiG:V

to spare

φείδομαι [in LXX for חָמַל, חוּס, חָשַׂךְ, etc. ;] to spare: 2Co.13:2; with genitive of person(s), Act.20:29, Rom.8:32 11:21, 1Co.7:28, 2Co.1:23, 2Pe.2:4-5; with inf., to forbear, 2Co.12:6.† (AS)

The KJV translates G5339 in the following manner:

spare (8x), spared (8x), forbear (2x), he (2x), sparing (2x), will (2x)

Full Thayer's lexicon entry

φείδομαι — pheídomai

φείδομαι; future φείσομαι; 1 aorist ἐφεισάμην; deponent middle; from Homer down; the Sept. for חָמַל, חוּס, חָשַׂך (to keep back); to spare: absolutely 2Co 13:2; τίνος, to spare one (Winers Grammar, § 30, 10 d.; Buttmann, § 132, 15), Act 20:29; Rom 8:32; Rom 11:21; 1Co 7:28; 2Co 1:23; 2Pe 2:4 f; to abstain (A. V. forbear), an infinitive denoting the act abstained from being supplied from the context: καυχᾶσθαι, 2Co 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.).

9 occurrences

Acts (1), Romans (2), I Corinthians (1), II Corinthians (3), II Peter (2)