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Koine Greek wordlink #115732

SR GNT 1 Cor 7:28 φείδομαι (feidomai) ‘I and from you_all am sparing’ Strongs=53390 Lemma=feidomai
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=present voice=middle person=1st number=singular
Year=59 AD

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Other uses (1) of identical word form φείδομαι (V-IPM1··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘φείδομαι’ (V-IPM1··S) has 2 different glosses: ‘am sparing’, ‘I am refraining’.

2 Cor 12:6 ‘the truth for I will_be speaking I am refraining but lest anyone’ SR GNT 2 Cor 12:6 word 13

OET-LV: 6 For/Because if I _may _want to _boast, not I _will _be foolish, because/for the_truth I _will _be _speaking, but I _am _refraining, lest anyone to me may _count beyond what he _is _seeing in _me, or is _hearing of me. (CO2_12:6)

OET-RV: 6 because even if I did want to boast, I wouldn’t be being foolish, because I would be speaking the truth. But I’ll refrain in case anyone reckons that I’m more than what they can see or hear about me. (CO2 12:6)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘feidomai’ have 7 different glosses: ‘am sparing’, ‘I am refraining’, ‘I will_be sparing anyone’, ‘he will_be sparing’, ‘he spared’, ‘spared’, ‘sparing’.

Greek words (4) other than φείδομαι (V-IPM1··S) with a gloss related to ‘sparing’

ACTs 20:29 φειδόμενοι (feidomenoi) V-PPM·NMP ‘among you_all not sparing from the flock’ SR GNT Acts 20:29 word 18

OET-LV: 29 I have _known that after the departure of _me heavy wolves will _be _coming _in among you _all, not sparing from _the flock, (ACT_20:29)

OET-RV: 29 I’m aware that after I leave, vicious wolves will come in amongst you and trying to steal the flock. (ACT 20:29)

ROM 11:21 φείσεται (feisetai) V-IFM3··S ‘spared neither from you he will_be sparing’ SR GNT Rom 11:21 word 17

OET-LV: 21 For/Because if the god from _the according _to nature branches not spared, neither from _you he _will _be _sparing. (ROM_11:21)

OET-RV: 21 because if he didn’t spare the natural branches when they showed unbelief, then he won’t spare you either. (ROM 11:21)

2 COR 1:23 φειδόμενος (feidomenos) V-PPM·NMS ‘my soul that sparing from you_all no_longer I came’ SR GNT 2 Cor 1:23 word 12

OET-LV: 23 But I as _witness the god am _calling on the my soul that sparing from _you _all no _longer I _came to Korinthos. (CO2_1:23)

OET-RV: 23 I call on God as a witness for my soul that it was to spare you all that I didn’t come to Corinth. (CO2 1:23)

2 COR 13:2 φείσομαι (feisomai) V-IFM1··S ‘the same again not I will_be sparing anyone’ SR GNT 2 Cor 13:2 word 25

OET-LV: 2 I _have _previously _said and I _am _previously _saying, as being _present the second time, and being _absent now to _the ones having _previously _sinned, and to _the rest all, that if I _may _come to the same again, not I _will _be _sparing anyone. (CO2_13:2)

OET-RV: 2 I said previously on my second visit and while I’m absent I’ll say it again to those who sinned previously and to all the rest as well: if I come back to find the same again, I won’t be sparing anyone, (CO2 13:2)

Key: V=verb