Lexical Summary oiktirmōn: merciful Original Word: οἰκτίρμωνTransliteration: oiktirmōn Phonetic Spelling: (oyk-tir'-mone) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: merciful Meaning: merciful Strong's Concordance merciful, of tender mercy. From oikteiro; compassionate -- merciful, of tender mercy. see GREEK oikteiro Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3629: οἰκτίρμωνοἰκτίρμων, οἰκτιρμόν, genitive ὀικτιρμονος (ὀκτείρω), merciful: Luke 6:36; James 5:11. (Theocritus, 15, 75; Anth. 7, 359, 1 (Epigr. Anth. Pal. Append. 223, 5); the Sept. for רַחוּם.) ("In classic Greek only a poetic term for the more common ἐλεήμων." Schmidt iii., p. 580.) |