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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
90x in 22 unique form(s)
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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, ῶ; 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 90 times in 84 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 33:5–Isa 33:2)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:5 - And Esau looked up and saw the women and the children, and said, What are these to thee? And he said, The children with which God has mercifully blessed thy servant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:11 - Receive my blessings, which I have brought thee, because God has had mercy on me, and I have all things; and he constrained him, and he took them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:29 - And Joseph [fn]lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, born of the same mother; and he said, Is this your younger brother, whom ye spoke of bringing to me? and he said, God have mercy on thee, my son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:3 - And thou shalt not spare a poor man in judgment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:19 - And God said, I will pass by before thee with my glory, and I will call by my name, the Lord, before thee; and [fn] I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and will have pity on whom I will have pity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:25 - the Lord make his face to shine upon thee, and have mercy upon thee;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:2 - and the Lord thy God shall deliver them into thy hands, then thou shalt smite them: thou shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt not make a covenant with them, neither shall ye pity them:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:17 - (LXX 13:18) And there shall nothing of the cursed thing cleave to thy hand, that the Lord may turn from his fierce anger, and [fn]shew thee mercy, and pity thee, and multiply thee, as he sware to thy fathers;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:50

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:50 - a nation bold in countenance, which shall not [fn]respect the person of the aged and shall not pity the young.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:3 - then the Lord shall heal thine iniquities, and shall pity thee, and shall again gather thee out from all the nations, among which the Lord has scattered thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:22 - And it shall come to pass, when their fathers or their brethren come to dispute with us, that we will say to them, Grant them freely to us, for we have not taken every man his wife in the battle: because ye did not give to them [fn]according to the occasion, ye transgressed.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:22 - And David said, While the child yet lived, I fasted and wept; for I said, Who knows if the Lord will pity me, and the child live?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:23 - And the Lord had mercy and compassion upon them, and had respect to them because of his covenant with Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob; and the Lord would not destroy them, and did not cast them out from his presence.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:17 - And he brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, and slew their young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, and did not spare Sedekias, and had no mercy upon their virgins, and they led away their old men: he delivered all things into their hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:21 - Pity me, pity me, O friends; for it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:21 - For he has not treated the barren woman well, and has had no pity on a feeble woman.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:15 - And they that survive of him shall utterly perish, and no one shall pity their widows.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:12 - (LXX 41:4) I will not be silent because of him: though because of his power one shall pity his antagonist.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:2 - (LXX 6:3) Pity me, O Lord; for I am weak: heal me, O Lord; for my bones are vexed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:13 - (LXX 9:14) Have mercy upon me, O Lord; look upon my affliction which I suffer of mine enemies, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:16 - (LXX 24:16) Look upon me, and have mercy upon me; for I am an only child and poor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:11 - (LXX 25:11) But I have walked in my innocence: redeem me, and have mercy upon me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:7 - (LXX 26:7) Hear, O Lord, my voice which I have uttered aloud: pity me, and hearken to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:10 - (LXX 29:11) The Lord heard, and had compassion upon me; the Lord is become my helper.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:9 - (LXX 30:10) Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with indignation, my soul and my belly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:4 - (LXX 40:5) I said, O Lord, have mercy upon me; heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:10 - (LXX 40:11) But thou, O Lord, have compassion upon me, and raise me up, and I shall requite them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:1 - (LXX 50:1) For the end, a Psalm of David, (50:2) when Nathan the prophet came to him, when he had gone in to Bersabee. (50:3) Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy great mercy; and according to the multitude of thy compassions blot out my transgression.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:1 - (LXX 55:1) For the end, concerning the people that were removed from the [fn]sanctuary, by David for a memorial, when the Philistines caught him in Geth. (55:2) Have mercy upon me, O God; for man has trodden me down; all the day long he warring has afflicted me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:1 - (LXX 56:1) For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial, when he fled from the presence of Saul to the cave. (56:2) Have mercy, upon me, O God, have mercy upon me: for my soul has trusted in thee: and in the shadow of thy wings will I hope, until the iniquity have passed away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 86:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 86:3 - (LXX 85:3) Pity me, O Lord: for to thee will I cry all the day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 86:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 86:16 - (LXX 85:16) Look thou upon me, and have mercy upon me: give thy strength to thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:29 - (LXX 118:29) Remove from me the way of iniquity; and be merciful to me [fn]by thy law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:58

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:58 - (LXX 118:58) I besought thy [fn]favour with my whole heart: have mercy upon me according to thy word.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:132

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:132 - (LXX 118:132) Look upon me and have mercy upon me, after the manner of them that love thy name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 123:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 123:3 - (LXX 122:3) Have pity upon us, O Lord, have pity upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:21 - He that dishonours the needy sins: but he that has pity on the poor is most blessed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:5 - He that laughs at the poor provokes him that made him; and he that rejoices at the destruction of another shall not be held guiltless: but he that has compassion shall find mercy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:17 - He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord; and he will recompense to him according to his gift.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:10 - The soul of the ungodly shall not be pitied by any man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:9 - He that has pity on the poor shall himself be maintained; for he has given of his own bread to the poor. (LXX 22:9a) He that gives liberally secures victory and honour; but he takes away the life of them that possess them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:17 - (LXX 9:16) Therefore the Lord shall not take pleasure in their young men, neither shall he have pity on their orphans or on their widows: for they are all transgressors and wicked, and every mouth speaks unjustly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is yet exalted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:19 - (LXX 9:18) The whole earth is set on fire because of the fierce anger of the Lord, and the people shall be as men burnt by fire: no man shall pity his brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 12:1 - And in that day thou shalt say, I will bless thee, O Lord; for thou wast angry with me, but thou hast turned aside thy wrath, and hast pitied me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:18 - They shall break the bows of the young men; and they shall have no mercy on your children; nor shall their eyes spare thy children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:1 - And the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and they shall rest on their land: and the stranger shall be added to them, yea, shall be added to the house of Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:11 - And after a time there shall be in it no green thing because of the grass being parched. Come hither, ye women that come [fn]from a sight; for it is a people of no understanding; therefore he that made them shall have no pity upon them, and he that formed them shall have no mercy upon them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:18 - And the Lord will again wait, that he may pity you, and will therefore be exalted that he may have mercy upon you: because the Lord your God is a judge: blessed are they that [fn]stay themselves upon him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:19 - For the holy people shall dwell in Sion: and whereas Jerusalem has [fn]wept bitterly, saying, Pity me; he shall pity thee: when he perceived the voice of thy cry, he hearkened to thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:2 - Lord, have mercy upon us; for we have trusted in thee: the seed of the rebellious is gone to destruction, but our deliverance was in a time of affliction.

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