οἰκτίρμων
merciful
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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G3629 appears in the Book of Luke — 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.
Luke
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.
The Greek adjective οικτιρμων centers on the idea of “merciful.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 2 verses. The word gravitates to Luke (50%), then James. Its earliest occurrence is Luke 6:36. It clusters with οικτειρω and οικτιρμος under a shared root. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3629 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
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 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 1 verse · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 50%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 50%
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: Merciful 2×
- American Standard Version: Merciful 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Merciful 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Merciful 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3629 across 3 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 G3629 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3629 across 3 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3629 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- merciful
Word origin
Derived from οικτειρω (oikteírō) (G3627) — to pity.
From G3627 ; compassionate : - merciful of tender mercy.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G3629 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| οἰκτίρμων oiktírmōn | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 6:36 | 2 |
| οἰκτίρμονες oiktírmones | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 6:36 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3629, 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 οικτιρμων appears 14 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 14 verses in 8 books.
- 14
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 14
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 34:6 οἰκτίρμων
- Deuteronomy 4:31 οἰκτίρμων
- Judges 5:30 οἰκτίρμων
- 2 Chronicles 30:9 οἰκτίρμων
- Ezra 19:17 οἰκτίρμων
- Psalms 77:38 οἰκτίρμων
- Lamentations 4:10 οἰκτίρμων
- Joel 2:13 οἰκτίρμων
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3629) 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.
- Exodus 34:6 οἰκτίρμων Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
- Deuteronomy 4:31 οἰκτίρμων for Yahweh your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
- Judges 5:30 οἰκτίρμων Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil? A lady, two ladies to every man; To Sisera a spoil of dyed garments, A spoil of dyed garments embroidered, Of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the spoil?
- 2 Chronicles 30:9 οἰκτίρμων 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 19:17 οἰκτίρμων
- Ezra 19:31 οἰκτίρμων
- Psalms 77:38 οἰκτίρμων
- Psalms 85:15 οἰκτίρμων
- Psalms 102:8 οἰκτίρμων My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.
- Psalms 108:12 οἰκτίρμων Give us help against the enemy, For the help of man is vain.
- Psalms 110:4 οἰκτίρμων Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek."
- Psalms 111:4 οἰκτίρμων He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered. Yahweh is gracious and merciful.
- Lamentations 4:10 οἰκτίρμων The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Joel 2:13 οἰκτίρμων Tear your heart, and not your garments, And turn to Yahweh, your God; For he is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, And relents from sending calamity.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3629) 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.