πολυέλεος
very merciful
Where this word appears
Every passage where πολυέλεος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 8 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.
- Exodus 34:6 πολυέλεος And the Lord passed by before his face, and proclaimed, The Lord God, pitiful and merciful, longsuffering and very compassionate, and true,
- Numbers 14:18 πολυέλεος The Lord is longsuffering and merciful, and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.
- Ezra 19:17 πολυέλεος
- Psalms 85:5 πολυέλεος For you, O Lord, are kind, and gentle; and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon you.
- Psalms 85:15 πολυέλεος But you, O Lord God, are compassionate and merciful, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and true.
- Psalms 102:8 πολυέλεος The Lord is compassionate and pitiful, longsuffering, and full of mercy.
- Psalms 144:8 πολυέλεος The Lord is compassionate, and merciful; long suffering, and abundant in mercy.
- Joel 2:13 πολυέλεος and rend your hearts, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God: for he is merciful and compassionate, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy, and repents of evils.
About this word
About this word
πολυέλεος (polyéleos), “very merciful,” 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 8 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 →