ἘΛΕΗΜΟΝ, ἐλεημον
ELEĒMON, eleēmon
Sounds Like: eh-leh-EE-mon
Translations: merciful, compassionate, pitiful
From the root: ἘΛΕΗΜΩΝ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes someone or something that shows mercy, compassion, or pity. It is used to characterize a person or entity as having a benevolent and forgiving nature, often in a religious context when referring to God. It can be used to describe a quality or attribute of a noun.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Masculine or Neuter
Strong’s number: G1655 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 60:1
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΛΕΗΜΩΝ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΛΕΗΜΟΝΑ — merciful, compassionate, a merciful one
- ἘΛΕΗΜΟΝΕΣ — merciful, compassionate, a merciful one
- ἘΛΕΗΜΟΝΟΣ — of merciful, of compassionate, of pitiful
- ἘΛΕΗΜΩΝ — merciful, compassionate, pitiful
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