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spare

Meaning of “spare”

1. To refrain from injuring, killing, destroying, using, or spending. 2. To preserve a person or thing from harm. 3. To withhold punishment. 4. To keep back or have remaining.

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First occurrence: Genesis 18:24

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Genesis 18:24
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
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The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Genesis 18:24 · retained source text

Peraduenture there be fifty righteous within the citie; wilt thou also destroy, and not spare the place for the fiftie righteous, that are therein?

Genesis 18:26
And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Genesis 18:26 · retained source text

And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fiftie righteous, within the citie, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

Deuteronomy 13:8
Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Deuteronomy 13:8 · retained source text

Thou shalt not consent vnto him nor hearken vnto him, neither shall thine eye pitie him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceale him.

Deuteronomy 29:20
The Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.
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1611 witness · Deuteronomy 29:20 · retained source text

The LORD wil not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD, and his ielousie shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this booke shall lie vpon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from vnder heauen.

1 Samuel 15:3
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 1 Samuel 15:3 · retained source text

Now goe, and smite Amalek, and vtterly destroy all that they haue, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, oxe and sheepe, camell and asse.

Nehemiah 13:22
And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Nehemiah 13:22 · retained source text

And I commanded the Leuites, that they should cleanse themselues, and that they should come and keepe the gates, to sanctifie the Sabbath day: Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me, according to the greatnesse of thy mercie.

1611 marginal noteOr, multitude.

Job 6:10
Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 6:10 · retained source text

Then should I yet haue comfort, yea I would harden my selfe in sorrow; let him not spare, for I haue not concealed the words of the holy One.

Job 20:13
Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Job 20:13 · retained source text

Though he spare it, and forsake it not, but keepe it stil within his mouth:

1611 marginal noteHebr. in the midst of his palate.

Job 27:22
For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
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1611 witness · Job 27:22 · retained source text

For God shall cast vpon him, and not spare: hee would faine flee out of his hand.

1611 marginal noteHeb. in fleeing he would flee.

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