Greek verb · G1653
ἐλεέω
eleeoel-eh-eh'-o
to have mercy
32 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: eleéō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1653is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 27New Testament books
- 21spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1653
to compassionate (by word or deed, specially, by divine grace)
The King James renders it: have compassion (pity on), have (obtain, receive, shew) mercy (on).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
eleeo is rendered "to have mercy". It stands 32 times in the Greek text, across ten books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 5:7Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-one different ways.
The first use
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Matthew 5:7ἐλεηθήσονται.¶
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's thirty-two uses are in Matthew.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- do have mercy on11
- I was shown mercy2
- received mercy2
- showing mercy2
- do have compassion on1
- do show mercy1
- had mercy on1
- having received mercy1
- He had mercy on1
- He may show mercy to1
- He shows mercy1
- I may show mercy1
and 7 more, 32 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐλεεινός | eleeinos | pitiful | Uses2 |
The words it stands beside
All 32, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
21 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐλέησόν7
- ἐλέησον4
- ἐλεᾶτε2
- ἠλεήθην2
- ἐλεεῖ1
- ἐλεηθέντες.¶1
- ἐλεηθήσονται.¶1
- ἐλεηθῶσιν1
- ἐλεῆσαι1
- ἐλεήσῃ.¶1
- ἐλεήσω1
- ἐλεῶ1
and 9 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singular11V-AAM-2S
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-AAI-3S
- verb · aorist passive, indicative · 1st person singular2V-API-1S
- verb · present active, command · 2nd person plural2V-PAM-2P
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singular1V-AAI-1S
- verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-AAN
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singular1V-AAS-3S
- verb · aorist passive, indicative · 1st person plural1V-API-1P
- verb · aorist passive, indicative · 2nd person plural1V-API-2P
- verb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-APP-NPM
- verb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 3rd person plural1V-APS-3P
- verb · future active, indicative · 1st person singular1V-FAI-1S
Matthew
eight uses
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
- ἐλεηθήσονται.¶eleethesontaiverb · future passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: will receive mercy
As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”
- ἐλέησονeleesonverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do have mercy on
And a Canaanite woman from that region came to Him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is miserably possessed by a demon.”
- ἐλέησόνeleesonverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do have mercy on
“Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering terribly. He often falls into the fire or into the water.
- ἐλέησόνeleesonverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do have mercy on
Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had on you?’
- ἐλεῆσαιeleesaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to have pitied
- ἠλέησα;¶eleesaverb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: pitied
And there were two blind men sitting beside the road. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”
- ἐλέησονeleesonverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do have mercy on
The crowd admonished them to be silent, but they cried out all the louder, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”
- ἐλέησονeleesonverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do have mercy on
Mark
three uses
But Jesus would not allow him. “Go home to your own people,” He said, “and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and what mercy He has shown you.”
- ἠλέησένeleesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He had mercy on
When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”
- ἐλέησόνeleesonverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do have mercy on
Many people admonished him to be silent, but he cried out all the louder, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”
- ἐλέησόνeleesonverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do have mercy on
Luke
four uses
So he cried out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. For I am in agony in this fire.’
- ἐλέησόνeleesonverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do have mercy on
and raised their voices, shouting, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”
- ἐλέησονeleesonverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do have compassion on
So he called out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”
- ἐλέησόνeleesonverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do have mercy on
Those who led the way admonished him to be silent, but he cried out all the louder, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”
- ἐλέησόνeleesonverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do have mercy on
Romans
eight uses
For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
- ἐλεήσωeleesoverb · future active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I will show mercy to
- ἐλεῶeleoverb · present active, subjunctive · 1st person singulartagged: I may show mercy
So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
- ἐλεῶντοςeleontosverb · present active, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: showing mercy
Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.
- ἐλεεῖeleeiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He shows mercy
Just as you who formerly disobeyed God have now received mercy through their disobedience,
- ἠλεήθητεeleetheteverb · aorist passive, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: were shown mercy
so they too have now disobeyed, in order that they too may now receive mercy through the mercy shown to you.
- ἐλεηθῶσινeleethosinverb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 3rd person pluraltagged: may have mercy shown
For God has consigned everyone to disobedience so that He may have mercy on everyone.
- ἐλεήσῃ.¶eleeseverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: He may show mercy to
if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is giving, let him give generously; if it is leading, let him lead with diligence; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.
- ἐλεῶνeleonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: showing mercy
1 Corinthians
one use
Now about virgins, I have no command from the Lord, but I give a judgment as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.
- ἠλεημένοςeleemenosverb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: received mercy
2 Corinthians
one use
Therefore, since God in His mercy has given us this ministry, we do not lose heart.
- ἠλεήθημενeleethemenverb · aorist passive, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: we received mercy
Philippians
one use
He was sick indeed, nearly unto death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, to spare me sorrow upon sorrow.
- ἠλέησενeleesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: had mercy on
1 Timothy
two uses
I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.
- ἠλεήθηνeleethenverb · aorist passive, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I was shown mercy
But for this very reason I was shown mercy, so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display His perfect patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.
- ἠλεήθηνeleethenverb · aorist passive, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I was shown mercy
1 Peter
two uses
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
- ἠλεημένοιeleemenoiverb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: received mercy
- ἐλεηθέντες.¶eleethentesverb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: having received mercy
Jude
two uses
And indeed, have mercy on those who doubt;
- ἐλεᾶτεeleateverb · present active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do have mercy on
save others by snatching them from the fire; and to still others show mercy tempered with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
- ἐλεᾶτεeleateverb · present active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do show mercy
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.