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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
Open full H2820 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
2 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
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.
Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.
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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