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spared

Meaning of “spared”

Past-tense or past-participial form of spare (to preserve from harm or punishment, refrain from using, or hold back).

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12 occurrences12 verses7 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: 1 Samuel 15:9

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1 Samuel 15:9
But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · 1 Samuel 15:9 · retained source text

But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheepe, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambes, and all that was good, and would not vtterly destroy them: but euery thing that was vile, and refuse, that they destroyed vtterly.

1611 marginal noteOr, of the second sort.

1 Samuel 15:15
And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
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1611 witness · 1 Samuel 15:15 · retained source text

And Saul sayde, They haue brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheepe, and of the oxen, to sacrifice vnto the LORD thy God, and the rest we haue vtterly destroyed.

1 Samuel 24:10
Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the Lord had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the Lord’s anointed.
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1611 witness · 1 Samuel 24:10 · retained source text

Behold, this day thine eyes haue seene, how that the LORD had deliuered thee to day into mine hand in the caue: and some bade me kill thee, but mine eye spared thee, and I said, I will not put foorth mine hand against my lord, for hee is the LORDs Anointed.

2 Samuel 12:4
And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
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1611 witness · 2 Samuel 12:4 · retained source text

And there came a traueller vnto the rich man, and he spared to take of his owne flocke, and of his owne herd, to dresse for the wayfaring man that was come vnto him, but tooke the poore mans lambe, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.

2 Samuel 21:7
But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the Lord’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · 2 Samuel 21:7 · retained source text

But the king spared Mephibosheth the sonne of Ionathan the sonne of Saul, because of the LORDs othe that was between them, betweene Dauid, and Ionathan the sonne of Saul.

1611 marginal note1.Sam. 18.3. and 20.8,42.

2 Kings 5:20
¶ But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
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1611 witness · 2 Kings 5:20 · retained source text

¶ But Gehazi the seruant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiuing at his hands that which hee brought: but as the LORD liueth, I wil runne after him, and take somewhat of him.

Psalms 78:50
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
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1611 witness · Psalms 78:50 · retained source text

He made a way to his anger, hee spared not their soule from death: but gaue their life ouer to the pestilence.

1611 marginal noteHeb. he waighed a path.

1611 marginal noteOr, their beasts, to the murreine, Exod.9.3.

Romans 8:32
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
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1611 witness · Romans 8:32 · retained source text

He that spared not his owne son, but deliuered him vp for vs all: how shall hee not with him also freely giue vs all things?

Romans 11:21
For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
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1611 witness · Romans 11:21 · retained source text

For if God spared not the natural branches, take heede least hee also spare not thee.

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Dispensed with; saved; forborne.

volume 2, leaf 634, column 3 (entry starts at OCR line 116)