ἐλεάω
show mercy
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐλεάω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 6 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Psalms 36:26 ἐλεάω He is merciful, and lends continually; and his seed shall be blessed.
- Psalms 114:5 ἐλεάω They have a mouth, but they can’t speak; they have eyes, but they can’t see:
- Proverbs 13:9 ἐλεάω The righteous always have light: but the light of the ungodly is quenched. Crafty souls go astray in sins: but just men pity, and are merciful.
- Proverbs 14:31 ἐλεάω He that oppresses the needy provokes his Maker: but he that honors him has pity upon the poor.
- Proverbs 21:26 ἐλεάω An ungodly man entertains evil desires all the day: but the righteous is unsparingly merciful and compassionate.
- Proverbs 28:8 ἐλεάω He that increases his wealth by usuries and unjust gains, gathers it for him that pities the poor.
About this word
About this word
ἐλεάω (eleáō), “show mercy,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 6 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
