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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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KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
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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The 1611 reading
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.

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Dispensed with; saved; forborne.

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