ἘΛΕΟΥΝΤΕΣ, ἐλεουντες
ELEOUNTES, eleountes
Sounds Like: eh-leh-OON-tes
Translations: having mercy, showing pity, pitying, having compassion, those who have mercy, those who show pity
From the root: ἘΛΕΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'having mercy' or 'showing pity'. It describes an ongoing action of extending compassion or kindness. It functions like an adjective or a noun, describing someone who is in the process of showing mercy. For example, it could be used to describe 'those who are showing mercy' or 'the merciful ones'.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Masculine, Plural
Strong’s number: G1653 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Justin Martyr
- First Apology of Justin Martyr — 57:1
Twelve Disciples
- The Didache — 5:2
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΛΕΕΩ.
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.
- ἘΛΕΑΣΑΝ — they had mercy, they pitied, they showed compassion
- ἘΛΕΕΙΝ — to have mercy, to pity, to show compassion
- ἘΛΕΕΙΣ — you have mercy, you pity, you show compassion
- ἘΛΕΕΙΣΘΑΙ — to be shown mercy, to be pitied, to have mercy shown
- ἘΛΕΗΘΕΝΤΟΣ — having been shown mercy, having been pitied, having received mercy
- ἘΛΕΗΘΗΣΟΝΤΑΙ — they will be shown mercy, they will receive mercy, they will be pitied, they will obtain mercy
- ἘΛΕΗΘΩΣΙΝ — they might be shown mercy, they might obtain mercy, they might be pitied
- ἘΛΕΗΣΑΣ — having mercy, having pity, having compassion, showing mercy, showing pity, showing compassion
- ἘΛΕΗΣΕΙΕ — he might have mercy, he might show pity, he might have compassion
- ἘΛΕΗΣΩ — I will have mercy, I will show mercy, I will pity
- ἘΛΕΗΣΩΣΙ — they will have mercy, they will pity, they will show compassion, they may have mercy, they may pity, they may show compassion
- ἘΛΕΟΥΜΕΝ — we have mercy, we show mercy, we pity, we feel compassion
- ἘΛΕΟΥΝ — to have mercy, to show pity, to be merciful
- ἘΛΕΩΝ — having mercy, showing mercy, pitying, being merciful
- ἘΛΕΩΝΤΕΣ — having mercy, pitying, those who have mercy, those who pity
- ἨΛΕΕΙΤΟ — was pitied, was shown mercy, was being pitied
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