STRONGS NUMBER G3629


Word Summary
oiktirmōn: merciful
Original Word: οἰκτίρμων
Transliteration: oiktirmōn
Phonetic Spelling: (oyk-tir'-mone)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: merciful
Meaning: merciful
Strong's Concordance
merciful, of tender mercy.

From oikteiro; compassionate -- merciful, of tender mercy.

see GREEK oikteiro

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3629: οἰκτίρμων

οἰκτίρμων, οἰκτιρμόν, genitive ὀικτιρμονος (ὀκτείρω), merciful: Luke 6:36; James 5:11. (Theocritus, 15, 75; Anth. 7, 359, 1 (Epigr. Anth. Pal. Append. 223, 5); the Sept. for רַחוּם.) ("In classic Greek only a poetic term for the more common ἐλεήμων." Schmidt iii., p. 580.)