adjective

eleeinos

Greekἐλεεινός (eleeinos)

Strong’sG1652

merciful, pitiful

stem eleein-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 26 forms occur

Translated as

pitiable1×to be pitied1×

What it means

ἐλεεινός, -ή, -όν

(< ἔλεος in Re, l.c., WH have the Attic poëtic form, ἐλεινός),

pitiable, miserable: Re 3:17; comparat., I Co 15:19.†

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.

Every form

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

eleeinstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

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

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

eleeinos“pitiable”subjectnominative singular1×

Revelation 3:17“pitiable”hoti legasō hoti Plousios amō kai ploutamē kai oudenem chreian echamō, kai ouk oidasē hoti sis asō tos talaipōros kai eleeinos kai ptōchos kai tuflos kai gumnos,You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

eleeinoterois1×

1 Corinthians 15:19“to be pitied”ei en ta zōa houta en Christo elpizarētois anō monem, eleeinoterois pantoiu anthrōpoiu anō.If our hope in Christ is for this life alone, we are to be pitied more than all men.