adjective
eleeinos
Strong’sG1652
merciful, pitiful
stem eleein-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἐλεεινός, -ή, -όν
(< ἔλεος in Re, l.c., WH have the Attic poëtic form, ἐλεινός),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1652 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidel-eh-i-nos'
pitiable
Fromfrom G1656;
King Jamesmiserable.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
ἐλεινός Refs, Attic dialect Refs 5th c.BC+, but ἐλεεινός Refs 4th c.BC+ Papyrus: written ἐλεηνός in LXX: (ἔλεος):— finding pity, pitied, δός μ᾽ ἐς Ἀχιλλῆος φίλον ἐλθεῖν ἠδ᾽ ἐλεεινόν Refs 8th c.BC+; moving pity, piteous, Refs, etc.; ἐλεινὸς εἰσορᾶν piteous to behold, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἐλεινὸν ὁρᾷς thou lookest piteous, Refs 5th c.BC+
b having received mercy, Refs
2 showing pity, ἐ. δάκρυον a tear of pity, Refs 8th c.BC+, Men.[same place]; οὐδὲν ἐλεινόν no feeling of pity, Refs 5th c.BC+
II adverb ἐλεεινῶς, Attic dialect ἐλεινῶς, pitiably, Refs 5th c.BC+ as adverb, Refs 8th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | eleeinos1×ἐλεεινὸς | eleeinas | eleeinem | eleeinois | eleeinais | eleeineim |
| object accusative | eleeinon | eleeinan | eleeinoin | eleeinain | ||
| direct address vocative | eleeinor | eleeinar | eleeinoir | eleeinair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | eleeinou | eleeinau | eleeineu | eleeinoiu | eleeinaiu | eleeineiu |
| to, for dative | eleeino | eleeina | eleeine | eleeinoi | eleeinai | eleeinei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
eleein is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
eleeinos“pitiable”subjectnominative singular1×
Revelation 3:17“pitiable”… hoti sis asō tos talaipōros kai eleeinos kai ptōchos kai tuflos kai gumnos,… not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.
eleeinoterois1×
1 Corinthians 15:19… houta en Christo elpizarēntois anō monem, eleeinoterois pantoiu anthrōpoiu anō.… for this life alone, we are to be pitied more than all men.