Word Summary
eusplanchnos: tenderhearted, compassionate
Original Word: εὔσπλαγχνοςTransliteration: eusplanchnos
Phonetic Spelling: (yoo'-splangkh-nos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: tenderhearted, compassionate
Meaning: tenderhearted, compassionate
Strong's Concordance
pitiful, tender-hearted.
From eu and splagchnon; well compassioned, i.e. Sympathetic -- pitiful, tender-hearted.
see GREEK eu
see GREEK splagchnon
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2155: εὔσπλαγχνοςεὔσπλαγχνος,
ἐυσπλαγχνον (
εὖ and
σπλάγχνον, which see), properly,
having strong bowels; once so in
Hippocrates (
), p. 89 c. (edited by Foës., i. 197, Kühn edition); in Biblical and ecclesiastical lang. compassionate, tender-hearted: Ephesians 4:32; 1 Peter 3:8; prec. Manass. 7 ((see the Sept., Tdf. edition, Proleg. § 29); Test xii. Patr. test. Zab. § 9; cf. Harnack's note on Hermas, vis. 1, 2 [ET]).