Strong's Greek · G1653

G1653 eleéō

ἐλεέω

have compassion (pity on), have (obtain, receive, shew) mercy (on)

When eleéō is spoken over you, Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against Scripture with people you trust, and return to it in a year.

Definition

to compassionate (by word or deed, specially, by divine grace)

Derivation

from G1656 (ἔλεος);

Appears 32 times in Scripture

Matthew 9:27

As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”

Matthew 17:15

“Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering terribly. He often falls into the fire or into the water.

Matthew 18:33

Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had on you?’

Mark 5:19

But Jesus would not allow him. “Go home to your own people,” He said, “and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and what mercy He has shown you.”

Matthew 20:30

And there were two blind men sitting beside the road. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”

Matthew 15:22

And a Canaanite woman from that region came to Him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is miserably possessed by a demon.”

Matthew 5:7

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

Mark 10:47

When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

Matthew 20:31

The crowd admonished them to be silent, but they cried out all the louder, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”

When eleéō is spoken over you

Words like this one get spoken over people: in a prayer line, in a message from a friend, in a moment nobody planned. The lexicon gives you what eleéō means. What God is saying to you through it is yours to record and weigh.

Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against verses like Matthew 9:27 with people you trust, and return to it in a year to see what came of it.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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