Word Summary
oiktirmōn: merciful
Original Word: οἰκτίρμωνTransliteration: 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: οἰκτίρμωνοἰκτίρμων,
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.)