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Greek

5339. pheidomai -- to spare, forbear
... forbear. Word Origin a prim. verb Definition to spare, forbear NASB Word
Usage refrain (1), spare (8), sparing (1). forbear, spare. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

2550. chamal -- to spare
... 2), have compassion (1), have pity (4), have...pity (1), mercy (1), ruthlessly*
(1), show pity (1), spare (11), spared (5), spares (2), sparing (5), unsparing ...
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Library

Whether God is Omnipotent?
... Objection 3: Further, it is said of God that He manifests His omnipotence "especially
by sparing and having mercy" [*Collect, 10th Sunday after Pentecost]. ...
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Now Suppose that While You were Writing This, as You Tell us You ...
... pass? The fact is that in controversies of this kind there is no thought
of sparing a friend if only an enemy can be injured. But ...
/.../21 now suppose that while.htm

Matt. xxiii. 14
... child of hell than yourselves;" [2679] that is, not even the fact that hardly ye
have taken him, and with endless toils, induces you to be sparing towards him ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily lxxiii matt xxiii 14.htm

A Difficulty, How we are Justified in the Blood of the Son of God.
... with Him also freely given us all things?" [811] Pray, unless the Father had been
already appeased, would He have delivered up His own Son, not sparing Him for ...
/.../augustine/on the holy trinity/chapter 11 a difficulty how we.htm

Whether Treachery, Fraud, Falsehood, Perjury, Restlessness ...
... iv, 1) mentions many kinds of vices as belonging to covetousness which he calls
illiberality, for he speaks of those who are "sparing, tight-fisted, skinflints ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether treachery fraud falsehood perjury.htm

Matt. xvi. 24
... thou well know what thou hast received.". Wherefore Christ compels not, but
urges, sparing us. For since they seemed to be murmuring ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily lv matt xvi 24.htm

Titus iii. 11-Aug
... For it is not right to be sparing of our money but not sparing of our words; we
ought rather to spare words than our money, and not to give ourselves up to all ...
/.../homily vi titus iii 11-aug.htm

Of the Affections and their Use; of Patience, and the Chief Good ...
... contempt of earthly things. But, on the other hand, they call him who is not
sparing of his property prodigal. For thus they distinguish ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap xvii of the affections and.htm

Love and Remorse
... It is fashionable at present to regard this incident and the other instance of David's
sparing Saul, when in his power, as two versions of one event. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/love and remorse.htm

Acts xx. 17-21
... "For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you,
not sparing the flock." (v.29.) Again he engages (epistrephei) them from ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily xliv acts xx 17-21.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spare.

2. (a.) Spare; saving; frugal; merciful.

Thesaurus

Sparing (17 Occurrences)
...Sparing (17 Occurrences). Acts 20:29 For I know that after my departure, vicious
wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock. ...
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Spare (80 Occurrences)
... 10. (vt) Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; chary. 11. ... 14. (vt) Slow. 15. (n.) The act
of sparing; moderation; restraint. 16. (n.) Parsimony; frugal use. 17. ...
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Spareth (9 Occurrences)

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Saul (371 Occurrences)
... He was, however, guilty of rebellion and disobedience in sparing Agag their king,
and in conniving at his soldiers' sparing the best of the sheep and cattle ...
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Quarter (33 Occurrences)
... 19. (vt) Treatment shown by an enemy; mercy; especially, the act of sparing the
life a conquered enemy; a refraining from pushing one's advantage to extremes. ...
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Vicious (3 Occurrences)
... RSV). Acts 20:29 For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will
enter in among you, not sparing the flock. (WEB). Isaiah ...
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Unsparing (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Not sparing; not parsimonious; liberal; profuse.
2. (a.) Not merciful or forgiving. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Outward (17 Occurrences)
... marries, she has not sinned. Such people, however, will have outward trouble.
But I am for sparing you. (WEY). 2 Corinthians 4:16 ...
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Jonah (30 Occurrences)
... to him, and his prompt obedience in delivering the message from God, and its results
in the repentance of the Ninevites, and God's long-sparing mercy toward ...
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Grievous (73 Occurrences)
... (KJV ASV WBS YLT). Acts 20:29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous
wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. (KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT). ...
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Bible Concordance

Sparing (17 Occurrences)

Acts 20:29 For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

1 Corinthians 7:28 Yet if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a maiden marries, she has not sinned. Such people, however, will have outward trouble. But I am for sparing you.
(WEY)

2 Corinthians 1:23 And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth;
(YLT)

Joshua 11:11 They struck all the souls who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was no one left who breathed. He burnt Hazor with fire.
(See NIV)

Joshua 11:14 The children of Israel took all the spoil of these cities, with the livestock, as spoils for themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They didn't leave any who breathed.
(See NIV)

Job 16:5 I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.
(YLT)

Job 27:22 Yea, it hurleth at him, and spareth not; he would fain flee from its power.
(See NAS)

Proverbs 13:24 Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.
(YLT)

Proverbs 17:27 One acquainted with knowledge is sparing his words, And the cool of temper 'is' a man of understanding.
(YLT)

Proverbs 21:26 There is that coveteth greedily all the day long; but the righteous giveth and spareth not.
(See NIV)

Proverbs 25:27 It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.
(See RSV)

Isaiah 30:14 He will break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won't be found among the broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."
(WEB JPS ASV DBY)

Isaiah 30:20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be hidden anymore, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers;
(See JPS)

Jeremiah 50:14 Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows; for she hath sinned against the LORD.
(See NAS)

Lamentations 2:17 The LORD hath done that which He devised; He hath performed His word that He commanded in the days of old; He hath thrown down unsparingly; and He hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee, He hath exalted the horn of thine adversaries.
(Root in JPS NAS)

Lamentations 2:21 The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; Thou hast slain them in the day of Thine anger; Thou hast slaughtered unsparingly.
(Root in JPS NAS)

Habakkuk 1:17 Doth he therefore empty his net, And continually to slay nations spare not?
(See NAS)

Subtopics

Sparing

Related Terms

Spare (80 Occurrences)

Spareth (9 Occurrences)

Saul (371 Occurrences)

Quarter (33 Occurrences)

Vicious (3 Occurrences)

Unsparing (1 Occurrence)

Outward (17 Occurrences)

Jonah (30 Occurrences)