G1656 – eleos – ἔλεος – a mercy

Strong’s ID:: G1656
Greek Word:: ἔλεος
Transliteration:: eleos
Pronunciation:: el’-eh-os
Part of Speech:: noun neuter
Etymology:: of uncertain affinity
Usage Count:: 28
Search:: Find “eleos” in the Bible (New Testament)

Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon

a mercy

Strong’s Greek Lexicon

of uncertain affinity; compassion (human or divine, especially active):— (+ tender) mercy.

Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.

Thayer’s Greek Definitions

1) mercy: kindness or good will towards the miserable and the afflicted, joined with a desire to help them
1a) of men towards men: to exercise the virtue of mercy, show one’s self merciful
1b) of God towards men: in general providence; the mercy and clemency of God in providing and offering to men salvation by Christ
1c) the mercy of Christ, whereby at his return to judgment he will bless true Christians with eternal life

Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.