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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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1 Samuel 15:3

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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.

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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.

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Genesis 18:24 1 Samuel 15:3 Job 20:13 Romans 8:32 Romans 11:21 2 Peter 2:4-5 Job 6:10 Psalms 39:13 Isaiah 30:14 Jeremiah 50:14 Ezekiel 9:5 Habakkuk 1:17 2 Corinthians 13:2