ἐλεημοσύνη G1654

Home gloss: mercifulness
Instead of (KJV / RSV): kindly / loyally / mercy
Note: The quality of the merciful (ἐλεήμων) and the deed it does: Gen 47:29 for the Masoretic version's חֶסֶד "loyalty." Giving to the poor (Matt 6:2–4; Acts 3:2–3; 10:2, 4) is a split by collocation, "alms" (English "alms" is this word, worn down through Latin eleemosyna), ruled when the New Testament is reached (153a). "Mercy" is ἔλεος's, "have mercy" ἐλεέω's (one root, 95, to be declared)
Rulings: 2, 57, 95, 153

Occurrences (1)

47:29 Now the days of Israel drew near to die, and he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If I have found grace before you, set your hand under my thigh, and you shall do on me mercifulness and truth, so as not to bury me in Egypt;