pheidomai · spare

What it means

pheidomai (φείδομαι) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “spare”.

Show consideration to someone and not harm him; also hold back.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Not to punish someone, or not hold something back.
2. To hold back.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• spare ×8
• I refrain ×1
• sparing ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Acts×1
• Romans×3
• 1 Corinthians×1
• 2 Corinthians×3
• 2 Peter×2

• Acts 20:29

  I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;

• Romans 8:32

  He who indeed did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also with him freely give us all things?

• Romans 11:21

  for if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

• 1 Corinthians 7:28

  But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if the virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such people will have affliction in the flesh, and I would spare you.

• 2 Corinthians 1:23

  But I call God as witness on my life that it was to spare you that I did not come again to Corinth.

• 2 Corinthians 12:6

  For if I should want to boast, I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth; but I refrain, lest anyone credit to me more than what he sees in me or hears from me,

• 2 Corinthians 13:2

  I have said before and I say in advance —as when present the second time, and now absent— to those who sinned before and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare anyone,

• 2 Peter 2:4

  For if God did not spare angels who sinned, but cast them into Tartarus and handed them over to chains of gloom, being kept for judgment;

• 2 Peter 2:5

  and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

And 1 more times.