Original Word: φείδομαι
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: pheidomai
Pronunciation: fī'-do-mī
Phonetic Spelling: (fi'-dom-ahee)
KJV: forbear, spare
NASB: spare, refrain, sparing
Word Origin: [of uncertain affinity]

1. to be sparing of
2. (subjectively) to abstain
3. (objectively) to treat leniently

forbear, spare.

Of uncertain affinity; to be chary of, i.e. (subjectively) to abstain or (objectively) to treat leniently -- forbear, spare.

Word Origin
a prim. verb
Definition
to spare, forbear
NASB Translation
refrain (1), spare (8), sparing (1).STRONGS NT 5339: φείδομαι

φείδομαι; future φείσομαι; 1 aorist ἐφεισάμην; deponent middle; from Homer down; the Sept. for חָמַל, חוּס, חָשַׂך (to keep back); to spare: absolutely 2 Corinthians 13:2; τίνος, to spare one (Winers Grammar, § 30, 10 d.; Buttmann, § 132, 15), Acts 20:29; Romans 8:32; Romans 11:21; 1 Corinthians 7:28; 2 Corinthians 1:23; 2 Peter 2:4f; to abstain (A. V. forbear), an infinitive denoting the act abstained from being supplied from the context: καυχᾶσθαι, 2 Corinthians 12:6 (μή φειδου — namely, διδάσκειν — εἰ ἔχεις διδάσκειν, Xenophon, Cyril 1, 6, 35; with the infinitive added, λέγειν κακά, Euripides, Or. 393; δρασαι τί τῶν τυραννικων, Plato, de rep. 9, p. 574 b.).

Acts 20:29 V-PPM/P-NMP
GRK: ὑμᾶς μὴ φειδόμενοι τοῦ ποιμνίου
NAS: in among you, not sparing the flock;
KJV: you, not sparing the flock.
INT: you not sparing the flock

Romans 8:32 V-AIM-3S
GRK: υἱοῦ οὐκ ἐφείσατο ἀλλὰ ὑπὲρ
NAS: He who did not spare His own Son,
KJV: He that spared not his own
INT: Son not spared but for

Romans 11:21 V-AIM-3S
GRK: κλάδων οὐκ ἐφείσατο μή πως
NAS: God did not spare the natural
KJV: if God spared not the natural
INT: branches not spared not at all

Romans 11:21 V-FIM-3S
GRK: οὐδὲ σοῦ φείσεται
KJV: he also spare not thee.
INT: neither you he should spare

1 Corinthians 7:28 V-PIM/P-1S
GRK: δὲ ὑμῶν φείδομαι
NAS: life, and I am trying to spare you.
KJV: but I spare you.
INT: moreover you spare

2 Corinthians 1:23 V-PPM/P-NMS
GRK: ψυχήν ὅτι φειδόμενος ὑμῶν οὐκέτι
NAS: to my soul, that to spare you I did not come
KJV: soul, that to spare you I came
INT: soul that sparing you not yet

2 Corinthians 12:6 V-PIM/P-1S
GRK: γὰρ ἐρῶ φείδομαι δέ μή
NAS: the truth; but I refrain [from] [this], so that no
KJV: but [now] I forbear, lest
INT: indeed I will say I refrain however lest

2 Corinthians 13:2 V-FIM-1S
GRK: πάλιν οὐ φείσομαι
NAS: again I will not spare [anyone],
KJV: I will not spare:
INT: again not I will spare

2 Peter 2:4 V-AIM-3S
GRK: ἁμαρτησάντων οὐκ ἐφείσατο ἀλλὰ σειραῖς
NAS: God did not spare angels
KJV: if God spared not the angels
INT: having sinned not spared but to chains

2 Peter 2:5 V-AIM-3S
GRK: κόσμου οὐκ ἐφείσατο ἀλλὰ ὄγδοον
NAS: and did not spare the ancient world,
KJV: And spared not the old
INT: world not spared but [the] eighth

Strong's Greek 5339
10 Occurrences

ἐφείσατο — 4 Occ.
φείδομαι — 2 Occ.
φειδόμενοι — 1 Occ.
φειδόμενος — 1 Occ.
φείσεται — 1 Occ.
φείσομαι — 1 Occ.