Quick Definition
merciful, pitiful
Strong's Definition
pitiable
Derivation: from G1656 (ἔλεος);
KJV Usage: miserable
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἐληινος, ἐληινη, ἐληινον (ἔλεος), from Homer down, to be pitied, miserable: Rev_3:17 (where WH have adopted the Attic form ἐλεινός, see their Appendix, p. 145); comparative, 1Co_15:19. (Cf. Winer's Grammar, 99 (94).)
STRONGS NT 1652: ἐλεινός [ἐλεινός, see ἐληινος.]
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἐλεειν
pitiable, wretched, miserable, 1Co_15:19 ; Rev_3:17
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἐλεεινός , -ή , -όν
( < ἔλεος ; in Re, l.c ., WH have the Attic poλtic form, ἐλεινός ),
pitiable, miserable: Rev_3:17 ; comparat., 1Co_15:19 .†
ἐλεινός , see ἐλεεινός .
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἐλεεινός [page 202]
See the late P Oxy I. 130 .3 (vi/A.D.) π (αρὰ ) Ἀνοὺπ ἐλεεινοῦ ὑμετέρου δούλου : cf. .7 and ib. 131 .2 (vi/vii A.D.). The form ἐλεινός read by WH in Rev_3:17 (see Notes .2 , p. 152) is explained by Blass Debrunner (p. 20) as ἐλεϊνός = ἐλεεινός .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἐλεεινός ἐλεεινός, ή, όν [Etym: ἔλεος] "finding pity, pitied or moving pity, pitiable, piteous", Hom. , etc.; ἐλεινὸς εἰσορᾶν "piteous" to behold, Aesch. ; ἐλεινὸν ὁρᾷς thou lookest "piteous", Soph. ; ἐσθῆτ᾽ ἐλεινήν Ar. ; ποιῶν ἑαυτὸν ὡς ἐλεεινότατον Dem. "shewing pity, pitying", ἐλ. δάκρυον a tear "of pity", Od. ; οὐδὲν ἐλεεινόν no "feeling of pity", Plat. adv. ἐλεεινῶς, in attic Poets ἐλεινῶς, "pitiably", Soph. ; neut. pl. ἐλεεινά as adv., Il.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἐλεεινός, -ή, -όν
(ἔλεος in Re, l.with, WH have the Attic poëtic form, ἐλεινός),
pitiable, miserable: Rev.3:17; comparat., 1Co.15:19.†
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