# G5339 φείδομαι

φείδομαι (pheídomai), Strong’s G5339: to be chary of, i.e. (subjectively) to abstain or (objectively) to treat leniently KJV: forbear, spare. Occurs 95 times.

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*pheídomai* — to be chary of, i.e. (subjectively) to abstain or (objectively) to treat leniently

KJV: forbear, spare

Occurs 95 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Acts 20:29](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/20?v=29) — For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
- [Romans 8:32](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/8?v=32) — He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all…
- [Romans 11:21](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/11?v=21) — for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
- [1 Corinthians 7:28](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/7?v=28) — But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the…
- [2 Corinthians 1:23](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-corinthians/1?v=23) — But I call God for a witness to my soul, that to spare you, I didn’t come to Corinth.
- [2 Corinthians 12:6](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-corinthians/12?v=6) — For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may…
- [2 Corinthians 13:2](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-corinthians/13?v=2) — I have warned previously, and I warn again, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to…
- [2 Peter 2:4](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-peter/2?v=4) — For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness…
- [2 Peter 2:5](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-peter/2?v=5) — and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a proclaimer of righteousness, when he…
- [1 Esdras 1:50](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-esdras/1?v=50) — The God of their ancestors sent by his messenger to call them back, because he had compassion on them and on his…