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φείδομαι

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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
φείδομαι
Greek transliteration: 
pheidomai
Simplified transliteration: 
pheidomai
Principal Parts: 
φείσομαι, ἐφεισάμην, -, -, -
Numbers
Strong's number: 
5339
GK Number: 
5767
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
10
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
v-1b(3)
Gloss: 
to spare, refrain from
Definition: 
to spare; to be tender of, Rom. 8:32; to spare, in respect of hard dealing, Acts 20:29; Rom. 11:21; 1 Cor. 7:28; 2 Cor. 1:23; 13:2; 2 Pet. 2:4, 5; absol. to forbear, abstain, 2 Cor. 12:6*

Greek-English Concordance for φείδομαι

Acts 20:29 I know that there will come to you after my departure savage wolves, not sparing (pheidomenoi | φειδόμενοι | pres mid ptcp nom pl masc) the flock.
Romans 8:32 He (epheisato | ἐφείσατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) who did (epheisato | ἐφείσατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) not spare (epheisato | ἐφείσατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
Romans 11:21 For if God did (epheisato | ἐφείσατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) not spare (epheisato | ἐφείσατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) the natural branches, perhaps he (pheisetai | φείσεται | fut mid ind 3 sg) will (pheisetai | φείσεται | fut mid ind 3 sg) not spare (pheisetai | φείσεται | fut mid ind 3 sg) you either.
1 Corinthians 7:28 But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. However those who do marry will have worldly trouble, and I am (pheidomai | φείδομαι | pres mid ind 1 sg) trying (pheidomai | φείδομαι | pres mid ind 1 sg) to (pheidomai | φείδομαι | pres mid ind 1 sg) spare (pheidomai | φείδομαι | pres mid ind 1 sg) you.
2 Corinthians 1:23 I call God as a witness against my soul, that it was to spare (pheidomenos | φειδόμενος | pres mid ptcp nom sg masc) you that I did not come again to Corinth.
2 Corinthians 12:6 For even if I should choose to boast, I would not be foolish, because I would be telling the truth. But I refrain from (pheidomai | φείδομαι | pres mid ind 1 sg) this, so that no one will give credit to me beyond what he sees in me or he hears from me,
2 Corinthians 13:2 I said before when I was with you the second time, and now, though absent, I say ahead of time to those who have sinned previously and to all the rest, that if I come again I (pheisomai | φείσομαι | fut mid ind 1 sg) will (pheisomai | φείσομαι | fut mid ind 1 sg) not spare (pheisomai | φείσομαι | fut mid ind 1 sg) anyone,
2 Peter 2:4 For if God did (epheisato | ἐφείσατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) not spare (epheisato | ἐφείσατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) the angels when they sinned but cast them into hell, committing them to chains of utter darkness, there to be kept until the judgment;
2 Peter 2:5 and if he (epheisato | ἐφείσατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) did (epheisato | ἐφείσατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) not spare (epheisato | ἐφείσατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) the ancient world (but preserved Noah, the eighth, a herald of righteousness) when he brought the deluge on an ungodly world;