Words the Bible translates as spare
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 9 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- ḥayahחָיָהto keep alive, to spare, to restore life: to cause or allow another to go on living.
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- to live: to be alive, to go on living, or to recover life after being near death.
- sha'arשָׁאַרto be left over after the rest is gone, or to leave something over
- yatarיָתַרto leave over: to set part aside so it stays, to have more than enough, or to spare someone alive
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- to be left over: to still be there after the rest is gone, used up, or destroyed
- pheidomaiφείδομαιto hold back from the harm, hardship, or action you have every power to carry out
- ḥamalחָמַלto spare: to hold back from harming, destroying, or taking something that lies within one's power, often out of pity
- ḥasakhחָשַׂךְto hold back: to keep a thing from being handed over, a person from acting, or a blow from falling
- ḥusחוּסto spare: to look on something with concern and hold back from harming or giving it up
- pasaḥפָּסַחto protect and spare from harm by standing guard over someone, so that a deadly threat cannot reach them.
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- to limp, to move with an uneven, halting gait.
- ḥayaחֲיָאto live: to be alive and go on living; and, of someone with the power of life and death, to let a person live.
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