Original: φείδομαι

Transliteration: pheídomai

Phonetic: fi'-dom-ahee

Short Definition: Forbear

- Original: φείδομαι

- Transliteration: Pheidomai

- Phonetic: fi'-dom-ahee

- Definition:

1. to spare

2. to abstain

- Origin: of uncertain affinity

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: Of uncertain affinity; to be chary of that is (subjectively) to abstain or (objectively) to treat leniently: - forbear spare.