Lexicon oiktiró: to pity, to have compassion on Original Word: οἰκτείρωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: oiktiró Phonetic Spelling: (oyk-ti'-ro) Short Definition: I pity, have compassion on Definition: I pity, have compassion on. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 3627 oikteírō properly, to respond with deep sensitivity (compassion, sympathy). This term is only used of the Lord in the NT (both time in Ro 9:15). See 3628 (oiktirmos). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom oiktos (pity) Definitionto pity, to have compassion on NASB Translationhave compassion (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3627: οἰκτείρωοἰκτείρω; future (as if from οἰκτειρέω, a form which does not exist) as in the Sept. οἰκτειρήσω, for the earlier οἰκτείρω, see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 741; ( Veitch, under the word; Winers Grammar, 88 (84); Buttmann, 64 (56)); (from οἶκτος pity, and this from the interjection οἱ, "Oh! ); to pity, have compassion on": τινα, Romans 9:15 (from Exodus 33:19. Homer, Tragg., Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, Demosthenes, Lucian, Plutarch, Aelian; the Sept. for חָנַן and רָחַם). (Synonym: see ἐληω, at the end.)
Strong's have compassion on. Also (in certain tenses) prolonged oiktereo oyk-ter-eh'-o from oiktos (pity); to exercise pity -- have compassion on. |
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