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But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
Read in context →And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Read in context →3 occurrences in 3 verses.
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pheídomai · fi'-dom-ahee
to be chary of, i.e. (subjectively) to abstain or (objectively) to treat leniently
Strong's KJV usage: :--forbear, spare.
Strong's first: Romans 8:32Strong's last: 2 Peter 2:5
Open full G5339 profile →châmal · khaw-mal'
to commiserate; by implication, to spare
Strong's KJV usage: have compassion, (have) pity, spare.
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 15:9Strong's last: 2 Samuel 21:7
Open full H2550 profile →chûwç · khoos
properly, to cover, i.e. (figuratively) to compassionate
Strong's KJV usage: pity, regard, spare.
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 24:10Strong's last: Ezekiel 20:17
Open full H2347 profile →châsak · khaw-sak'
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.
Strong's first: 2 Kings 5:20Strong's last: Psalms 78:50
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But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD's anointed.
And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
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SPA'RED, participle passive Dispensed with; saved; forborne.
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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