Words the Bible translates as pity
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 5 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- eleosἔλεοςmercy: undeserved kindness toward someone in trouble, shown not as a mere feeling but as help actually given
- raḥamimרַחֲמִיםdeep, tender compassion: the gut-level mercy a parent feels toward a child
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- the womb: the part of a woman's body where a child is carried
- oiktirmosοἰκτιρμόςcompassion: deep, tender mercy felt in the gut, the kind God shows his people and calls them to show one another
- ḥusחוּסto spare: to look on something with concern and hold back from harming or giving it up
- splagchnizōσπλαγχνίζωto be moved with deep compassion, a mercy felt at the core of one's being that moves the one feeling it to act
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