Genesis 18:24
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
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Spare
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2 Corinthians 13:2
I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
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Genesis
22 verses
Deuteronomy
22 verses
1 Samuel
11 verses
Nehemiah
11 verses
Job
55 verses
Psalms
22 verses
Proverbs
22 verses
Isaiah
55 verses
Jeremiah
44 verses
Ezekiel
77 verses
Joel
11 verses
Jonah
11 verses
Habakkuk
11 verses
Malachi
11 verses
Luke
11 verses
Romans
11 verses
1 Corinthians
11 verses
2 Corinthians
22 verses
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חוּס
chûwç · khoos
14 times translated as this KJV form24 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to cover, i.e. (figuratively) to compassionate
Strong's KJV usage: pity, regard, spare.
Strong's first: Nehemiah 13:22Strong's last: Jonah 4:11
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châmal · khaw-mal'
13 times translated as this KJV form41 total Strong's occurrences
to commiserate; by implication, to spare
Strong's KJV usage: have compassion, (have) pity, spare.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 13:8Strong's last: Malachi 3:17
Open full H2550 profile →φείδομαι
pheídomai · fi'-dom-ahee
4 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
to be chary of, i.e. (subjectively) to abstain or (objectively) to treat leniently
Strong's KJV usage: :--forbear, spare.
Strong's first: Romans 11:21Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 13:2
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châsak · khaw-sak'
3 times translated as this KJV form27 total Strong's occurrences
to restrain or (reflex.) refrain; by implication, to refuse, spare, preserve; to observe
Strong's KJV usage: assuage, × darken, forbear, hinder, hold back, keep (back), punish, refrain, reserve, spare, withhold.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 30:10Strong's last: Isaiah 58:1
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nâsâʼ · naw-saw'
3 times translated as this KJV form647 total Strong's occurrences
to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
Strong's KJV usage: accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable ( man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, × needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, swear, take (away, up), × utterly, wear, yield.
Strong's first: Genesis 18:24Strong's last: Proverbs 19:18
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perisseúō · per-is-syoo'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form41 total Strong's occurrences
to superabound (in quantity or quality), be in excess, be superfluous; also (transitively) to cause to superabound or excel
Strong's KJV usage: :--(make, more) abound, (have, have more) abundance (be more) abundant, be the better, enough and to spare, exceed, excel, increase, be left, redound, remain (over and above).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 15:17Strong's last: Luke 15:17
Open full G4052 profile →סָלַח
çâlach · saw-lakh'
1 times translated as this KJV form46 total Strong's occurrences
to forgive
Strong's KJV usage: forgive, pardon, spare.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 29:20Strong's last: Deuteronomy 29:20
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shâʻâh · shaw-aw'
1 times translated as this KJV form15 total Strong's occurrences
to gaze at or about (properly, for help); by implication, to inspect, consider, compassionate, be nonplussed (as looking around in amazement) or bewildered
Strong's KJV usage: depart, be dim, be dismayed, look (away), regard, have respect, spare, turn.
Strong's first: Psalms 39:13Strong's last: Psalms 39:13
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H2550
And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
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spare
SPARE, verb transitive [It seems to be from the same root as Latin parco.]
1. To use frugally; not to be profuse; not to waste. Thou thy Father's thunder did'st not spare/
2. To save or withhold from any particular use or occupation. He has no bread to spare that is, to withhold from his necessary uses. All the time he could spare from the necessary cares of his weighty charge, he bestowed on prayer and serving of God.
3. To part with without much inconvenience; to do without. I could have better spar'd a better man. Nor can we spare you long-
4. To omit; to forbear. We might have spared this toil and expense; Be pleas'd your politics to spare
5. To use tenderly; to treat with pity and forbearance; to forbear to afflict, punish or destroy. spare us, good Lord. dim sadness did not spare celestial visages. But man alone can whom be conquers spare
6. Not to take when in one's power; to forbear to destroy; as, to spare the life of a prisoner.
7. To grant; to allow; to indulge. Where anger Jove did never spare one breath of kind and temp'rate air.
8. TO forbear to inflict of impose. spare my sight the pain of seeing what a world of tears it cost you.
SPARE, verb intransitive
1. TO live frugally; to be parsimonious. Who at some times spend, as other spare divided between carelessness and care.
2. To forbear; to be scrupulous. To pluck and cat my fill I spar'd not.
3. To be frugal; not to be profuse.
4. To use mercy or forbearance; to forgive to be tender. The king was sparing and compassionate towards hid subjects.
SPARE, adjective
1. Seanty; parsimonious; not abundant; as a spare diet. He was spare but discreet of speech. [We more generally use, in the latter application, sparing; as, he was sparing of words.]
2. That can be dispensed with; not wanted; superfluous. I have no spare time on my hands. If that no spare clothes he had to give.
3. Lean; wanting flesh; meager; thin. O give me your spare men and spare me the great ones.
4. Slow. [Not in use.]
SPARE, noun Parsimony; frugal use. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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