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Lexicon :: Strong's G1653 - eleeō

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ἐλεέω
Transliteration
eleeō (Key)
Pronunciation
el-eh-eh'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
mGNT
32x in 21 unique form(s)
TR
31x in 23 unique form(s)
LXX
91x in 22 unique form(s)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:477,222

Variant Spellings

In Jude 22-23 and Rom 9:16 its lexical form would be ἐλεάω.

Strong’s Definitions

ἐλεέω eleéō, el-eh-eh'-o; from G1656; to compassionate (by word or deed, specially, by divine grace):—have compassion (pity on), have (obtain, receive, shew) mercy (on).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 31x

The KJV translates Strong's G1653 in the following manner: have mercy on (14x), obtain mercy (8x), show mercy (2x), have compassion (1x), have compassion on (1x), have pity on (1x), have mercy (1x), have mercy upon (1x), receive mercy (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 31x
The KJV translates Strong's G1653 in the following manner: have mercy on (14x), obtain mercy (8x), show mercy (2x), have compassion (1x), have compassion on (1x), have pity on (1x), have mercy (1x), have mercy upon (1x), receive mercy (1x).
  1. to have mercy on

  2. to help one afflicted or seeking aid

  3. to help the afflicted, to bring help to the wretched

  4. to experience mercy

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐλεέω eleéō, el-eh-eh'-o; from G1656; to compassionate (by word or deed, specially, by divine grace):—have compassion (pity on), have (obtain, receive, shew) mercy (on).
STRONGS G1653:
ἐλεέω, ; future ἐλεήσω; 1 aorist ἠλέησα; passive, 1 aorist ἠλεήθην; 1 future ἐλεηθήσομαι; perfect participle ἠλεημένος; (ἔλεος); from Homer down; Sept. most frequently for חָנַן to be gracious, also for רִחַם to have mercy; several times for חָמַל to spare, and נִחַם to console; to have mercy on: τινά [Winer's Grammer 32, 1 b. α], to succor one afflicted or seeking aid, Matthew 9:27; Matthew 15:22; Matthew 17:15; Matthew 18:33; Matthew 20:30f; Mark 5:19 [here, by zeugma (Winer's Grammar § 66, 2 e.), the ὅσα is brought over with an adverbial force (Winer's Grammar 463 (431f.)), how]; Mark 10:47f; Luke 16:24; Luke 17:13; Luke 18:38f; Philippians 2:27; Jude 1:22 Rec.; absolutely to succor the afflicted, to bring help to the wretched, [A. V. to show mercy], Romans 12:8; passive to experience [A. V. obtain] mercy, Matthew 5:7. Specifically of God granting even to the unworthy favor, benefits, opportunities, and particularly salvation by Christ: Romans 9:15, 16 R G (see ἐλεάω), Romans 9:18; Romans 11:32; passive, Romans 11:30f; 1 Corinthians 7:25; 2 Corinthians 4:1; 1 Timothy 1:13, 16; 1 Peter 2:10.
[Synonyms: ἐλεέω, οἰκτείρω: ἐλ. to feel sympathy with the misery of another, especially such sympathy as manifests itself in act, less frequently in word; whereas οἰκτ. denotes the inward feeling of compassion which abides in the heart. A criminal begs ἔλεος of his judge; but hopeless suffering is often the object of οἰκτιρμός. Schmidt ch. 143. On the other hand, Fritzsche (Commentary on Romans volume 2 p. 315) makes οἰκτ. and its derivatives the stronger terms: ἐλ. the generic word for the feeling excited by another's misery; οἰκτ. the same, especially when it calls (or is suited to call) out exclamations and tears.]

Related entry:
ἐλεάω, adopted for the more common ἐλεέω (which see) by L T Tr WH in Romans 9:16 and Jude 1:23 [also by WH Tr marginal reading in 22]; (Proverbs 21:26 manuscript Vat.; 4 Macc. 9:3 variant; Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 13, 2; Polycarp, ad Philip. 2, 2). Cf. Winers Grammar, 85 (82); Buttmann, 57 (50); [Mullach, p. 252; WHs Appendix, p. 166; Tdf. Proleg., p. 122].
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Proverbs
21:26
Matthew
5:7; 9:27; 15:22; 17:15; 18:33; 20:30
Mark
5:19; 10:47
Luke
16:24; 17:13; 18:38
Romans
9:15, 16; 9:16; 9:18; 11:32; 12:8
1 Corinthians
7:25
2 Corinthians
4:1
Philippians
2:27
1 Timothy
1:13; 1:16
1 Peter
2:10
Jude
1:22; 1:23

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1653 matches the Greek ἐλεέω (eleeō),
which occurs 91 times in 85 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 33:5–Isa 30:19)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:5 - And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children and said, “[fn]Who are these with you?” And he said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:11 - “Please take my blessing which has been brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me and because I have [fn]everything.” Thus he urged him, and he took it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:29 - Then he lifted his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son. And he said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?” And he said, “May God be gracious to you, my son.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:3 - nor shall you [fn]be partial to a poor man in his case.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:19 - And He said, “I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of Yahweh before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will show compassion on whom I will show compassion.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:25 -

Yahweh make His face shine on you,

And be gracious to you;

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:2 - and when Yahweh your God gives them over before you and you strike them down, then you shall devote them to destruction. You shall cut no covenant with them and show no favor to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:17 - “Now nothing from that which is devoted to destruction shall cling to your hand, in order that Yahweh may turn from His burning anger and grant compassion to you and show compassion to you and make you multiply, just as He has sworn to your fathers,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:50 - a nation of fierce countenance who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:3 - then Yahweh your God will [fn]return [fn]you from captivity and return His compassion on you, and He will gather you again from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:22 - “And it will be when their fathers or their brothers come to contend with us, that we shall say to them, ‘Be gracious to us concerning them because we did not take for each man of Benjamin [fn]a wife in the battle, [fn]and you did not give your daughters to them; otherwise you would now be guilty.’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:22 - Then he said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows, Yahweh may be gracious to me, that the child may live.’
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:23 - But Yahweh was gracious to them and had compassion on them and turned to them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not bring them to ruin or cast them from His presence until now.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:17 - Therefore He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who killed their choice men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on choice man or virgin, old man or infirm; He gave them all into his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:21 -

“Pity me, pity me, O you my friends,

For the hand of God has smitten me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:21 -

“He feeds on the barren woman who does not give birth

And does no good for the widow.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:15 -

“His survivors will be buried because of the plague,

And [fn]their widows will not be able to weep.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:12 -

“I will not keep silence concerning its limbs,

Or its mighty strength or its graceful frame.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:2 -

Be gracious to me, O Yahweh, for I am pining away;

Heal me, O Yahweh, for my bones are dismayed.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:13 -

Heth

Be gracious to me, O Yahweh;

See my affliction from those who hate me,

You who lift me up from the gates of death,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:16 -

Pe

Turn to me and be gracious to me,

For I am alone and afflicted.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:11 -

But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity;

Redeem me, and be gracious to me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:7 -

Hear, O Yahweh, when I call with my voice,

And be gracious to me and answer me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:10 -

“Hear, O Yahweh, and be gracious to me;

O Yahweh, be my helper.”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:9 -

Be gracious to me, O Yahweh, for I am in distress;

My eye is wasted away from grief, my soul and [fn]my body also.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:4 -

As for me, I said, “O Yahweh, be gracious to me;

Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:10 -

But You, O Yahweh, be gracious to me and raise me up,

That I may repay them.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:1 -

For the choir director. A Psalm of David. When [fn]Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness;

According to the abundance of Your compassion blot out my transgressions.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:1 -

For the choir director. According to [fn]Jonath Elem Rehokim. A [fn]Mikhtam of David. [fn]When the Philistines seized him in Gath.

Be gracious to me, O God, for man has [fn]trampled upon me;

All day long, an attacker oppresses me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:1 -

For the choir director. [fn]Al-tashheth. Of David. A [fn]Mikhtam. [fn]When he fled from Saul in the cave.

Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me,

For my soul takes refuge in You;

And in the shadow of Your wings I will take refuge

Until destruction passes by.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 86:3 -

Be gracious to me, O Lord,

For to You I call all day long.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 86:16 -

Turn to me, and be gracious to me;

Oh grant Your strength to Your slave,

And save the son of Your maidservant.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:29 -

Remove the false way from me,

And graciously grant me Your law.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:58 -

I have sought to please Your face with all my heart;

Be gracious to me according to Your [fn]word.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:132 -

Turn to me and be gracious to me,

According to Your judgment [fn]for those who love Your name.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 123:3 -

Be gracious to us, O Yahweh, be gracious to us,

For we are greatly saturated with contempt.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:13 -

The snare of an evil man is in the transgression of his lips,

But the righteous man will come out from distress.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:21 -

He who despises his neighbor sins,

But how blessed is he who is gracious to the [fn]poor.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:5 -

He who mocks the poor reproaches his Maker;

He who is glad at disaster will not go unpunished.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:17 -

He who is gracious to a poor man lends to Yahweh,

And He will repay him for his bountiful deed.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:10 -

The soul of the wicked craves evil;

His neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:9 -

He who [fn]is generous will be blessed,

For he gives from his food to the poor.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:17 -

Therefore the Lord is not glad in their choice men,

Nor does He have compassion on their [fn]orphans or their widows;

For every one of them is godless and an evildoer,

And every mouth is speaking wicked foolishness.

In spite of all this, His anger does not turn back,

And His hand is still stretched out.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:19 -

By the fury of Yahweh of hosts the land is burned up,

And the people are like fuel for the fire;

No man spares his brother.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 12:1 -

Then you will say in that day,

“I will give thanks to You, O Yahweh;

For although You were angry with me,

Your anger is turned away,

And You comfort me.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:18 -

And their bows will dash the young men to pieces,

They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb,

Nor will their eye pity [fn]children.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:1 -

When Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob and again choose Israel, and [fn]put them in their own land, then sojourners will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:11 -

When its limbs are dry, they are broken off;

Women come and light a fire with them,

For they are not a people of discernment,

Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them.

And their Creator will not be gracious to them.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:18 -

Therefore Yahweh waits with longing to be gracious to you,

And therefore He is on high to have compassion on you.

For Yahweh is a God of justice;

How blessed are all those who wait for Him.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:19 -

[fn]O people in Zion, inhabitant in Jerusalem, you will weep no longer. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will answer you.


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