adjective
eleēmonos
Strong’sG1655
full of pity, merciful
stem eleēmon-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
ἐλεήμων, -ον
[in LXX chiefly for חַנּוּן;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1655 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidel-eh-ay'-mone
compassionate (actively)
Fromfrom G1653;
King Jamesmerciful.
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
genitive ονος, pitiful, merciful, NT+8th c.BC+; of God, LXX+5th c.BC+ adverb -μόνως, condemned by Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 | eleēmonos1×ἐλεήμων | eleēmonas | eleēmonem | eleēmonois1×ἐλεήμονες | eleēmonais | eleēmoneim |
| object accusative | eleēmonon | eleēmonan | eleēmonoin | eleēmonain | ||
| direct address vocative | eleēmonor | eleēmonar | eleēmonoir | eleēmonair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | eleēmonou | eleēmonau | eleēmoneu | eleēmonoiu | eleēmonaiu | eleēmoneiu |
| to, for dative | eleēmono | eleēmona | eleēmone | eleēmonoi | eleēmonai | eleēmonei |
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
eleēmon 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
eleēmonos“merciful”subjectnominative singular1×
Hebrews 2:17… kata panteim toi adelfoi homoiira, hina eleēmonos geneteia kai pistos archierevos teim pros …… so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service …
eleēmonois“merciful”subjectnominative plural1×
Matthew 5:7makariois tois eleēmonois, hoti autois elēili.Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.