Greek verb · G5339
φείδομαι
pheidomaifi'-dom-ahee
to spare
10 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pheídomai
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5339is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5339
to be chary of, i.e. (subjectively) to abstain or (objectively) to treat leniently
The King James renders it: forbear, spare.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
pheidomai is rendered "to spare". It stands 10 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Three of the uses stand in Romans, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 20:29I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.
Acts 20:29φειδόμενοι
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's ten uses are in Romans.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- spared3
- sparing2
- am sparing1
- He spared1
- I refrain1
- I will spare1
- will He spare1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| φειδομένως | pheidomenos | sparingly | Uses2 |
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐφείσατο4
- φείδομαι1
- φείδομαι.¶1
- φειδόμενοι1
- φειδόμενος1
- φείσεται.¶1
- φείσομαι1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singular4V-ADI-3S
- verb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 1st person singular2V-PNI-1S
- verb · future middle form, indicative · 1st person singular1V-FDI-1S
- verb · future middle form, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-FDI-3S
- verb · present middle or passive form, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-PNP-NPM
- verb · present middle or passive form, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-PNP-NSM
Acts
one use
I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.
- φειδόμενοιpheidomenoiverb · present middle or passive form, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: sparing
Romans
three uses
He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
- ἐφείσατοepheisatoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: spared
For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will certainly not spare you either.
- ἐφείσατοepheisatoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: spared
- φείσεται.¶pheisetaiverb · future middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will He spare
1 Corinthians
one use
But if you do marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face troubles in this life, and I want to spare you this.
- φείδομαι.¶pheidomaiverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: am sparing
2 Corinthians
three uses
I call God as my witness that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.
- φειδόμενοςpheidomenosverb · present middle or passive form, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: sparing
Even if I wanted to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me,
- φείδομαιpheidomaiverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I refrain
I already warned you the second time I was with you. So now in my absence I warn those who sinned earlier and everyone else: If I return, I will not spare anyone,
- φείσομαιpheisomaiverb · future middle form, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I will spare
2 Peter
two uses
For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
- ἐφείσατοepheisatoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: spared
if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;
- ἐφείσατοepheisatoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He spared
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.