οἰκτιρμός
compassion
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G3628 appears in the Book of Colossians — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Colossians
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
οικτιρμος — transliterated oiktirmós — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “compassion.” With only 5 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. Debuting at Romans 12:1, it then recurs through the corpus. Related forms include οικτειρω and οικτιρμων. See the sense tree, 5-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3628 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,648
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 1 verse 20%
- 2 Corinthians 1 verse 20%
- Philippians 1 verse 20%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 4 verses · 80%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Mercies 4×
- American Standard Version: Compassion 2×, Mercies 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Compassion 3×, Mercy 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Compassions 2×, Mercy 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3628 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3628 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3628 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3628 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- compassion, pity, mercy
Word origin
Derived from οικτειρω (oikteírō) (G3627) — to pity.
From G3627 ; pity : - mercy.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G3628 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| οἰκτιρμῶν oiktirmō̂n | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Romans 12:1 | 3 |
| οἰκτιρμοί oiktirmoí | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Philippians 2:1 | 1 |
| οἰκτιρμοῦ oiktirmoû | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Colossians 3:12 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3628, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word οικτιρμος appears 26 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 26 verses in 9 books.
- 26
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 26
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Samuel 24:14 οἰκτιρμός
- 1 Kings 8:50 οἰκτιρμός
- 1 Chronicles 21:13 οἰκτιρμός
- 2 Chronicles 30:9 οἰκτιρμός
- Ezra 11:11 οἰκτιρμός
- Psalms 24:6 οἰκτιρμός
- Isaiah 63:15 οἰκτιρμός
- Hosea 2:21 οἰκτιρμός
- Zechariah 1:16 οἰκτιρμός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3628) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 2 Samuel 24:14 οἰκτιρμός David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of Yahweh; for his mercies are great; and let me not fall into the hand of man.
- 1 Kings 8:50 οἰκτιρμός and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them
- 1 Chronicles 21:13 οἰκτιρμός David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall, I pray, into the hand of Yahweh; for very great are his mercies: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
- 2 Chronicles 30:9 οἰκτιρμός For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children shall find compassion before those who led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.
- Ezra 11:11 οἰκτιρμός
- Ezra 19:19 οἰκτιρμός
- Ezra 19:27 οἰκτιρμός
- Ezra 19:28 οἰκτιρμός
- Ezra 19:31 οἰκτιρμός
- Psalms 24:6 οἰκτιρμός This is the generation of those who seek Him, Who seek your face--even Jacob. Selah.
- Psalms 39:12 οἰκτιρμός "Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, A foreigner, as all my fathers were.
- Psalms 50:3 οἰκτιρμός Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very tempestuous around him.
- Psalms 68:17 οἰκτιρμός The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.
- Psalms 76:10 οἰκτιρμός Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
- Psalms 78:8 οἰκτιρμός And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, Whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
- Psalms 102:4 οἰκτιρμός My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, For I forget to eat my bread.
- Psalms 105:46 οἰκτιρμός
- Psalms 118:77 οἰκτιρμός
- Psalms 118:156 οἰκτιρμός
- Psalms 144:8 οἰκτιρμός Whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
- Psalms 144:9 οἰκτιρμός I will sing a new song to you, God. On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises to you.
- Isaiah 63:15 οἰκτιρμός Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where are your zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.
- Hosea 2:21 οἰκτιρμός It will happen in that day, I will respond," says Yahweh, I will respond to the heavens, And they will respond to the earth;
- Zechariah 1:16 οἰκτιρμός Therefore thus says Yahweh: "I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it," says Yahweh of Hosts, "and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem."'
- Zechariah 7:9 οἰκτιρμός "Thus has Yahweh of Hosts spoken, saying, 'Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.
- Zechariah 12:10 οἰκτιρμός I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3628) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.