Dictionaries :: Compassion, Compassionate

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Compassion, Compassionate:

"to have pity, a feeling of distress through the ills of others," is used of God's compassion, Rom 9:15.

Compassion, Compassionate:

"to be moved as to one's inwards (splanchna), to be moved with compassion, to yearn with compassion," is frequently recorded of Christ towards the multitude and towards individual sufferers, Mat 9:36; 14:14; 15:32; 18:27; 20:34; Mar 1:41; 6:34; 8:2; 9:22 (of the appeal of a father for a demon-possessed son); Luk 7:13; 10:33; of the father in the parable of the prodigal son, Luk 15:20. (Moulton and Milligan consider the verb to have been coined in the Jewish Dispersion).

Compassion, Compassionate:

"to suffer with another (sun, 'with,' pascho, 'to suffer'), to be affected similarly" (Eng., "sympathy"), to have "compassion" upon, Hbr 10:34, of "compassionating" those in prison, is translated "be touched with" in Hbr 4:15, of Christ as the High Priest.
See TOUCH.

Compassion, Compassionate:

"to have mercy (eleos, "mercy"), to show kindness, by beneficence, or assistance," is translated "have compassion" in Mat 18:33 (AV); Mar 5:19; Jud 1:22.
See MERCY.

Compassion, Compassionate:

is rendered "have compassion," in Hbr 5:2, AV.
See BEAR, No. 13.

Compassion, Compassionate:

akin to A, No. 1, is used with splanchna (see below), "the viscera, the inward parts," as the seat of emotion, the "heart," Phl 2:1; Col 3:12, "a heart of compassion" (AV, "bowels of mercies"). In Hbr 10:28 it is used with choris, "without," (lit., "without compassions"). It is translated "mercies" in Rom 12:1; 2Cr 1:3.
See MERCY.

Compassion, Compassionate:

always used in the plural, is suitably rendered "compassion" in the RV of Col 3:12; 1Jo 3:17; "compassions" in Phl 2:1, Cp. A, No. 2.
See BOWELS.

Compassion, Compassionate:

denotes suffering with, "compassionate," 1Pe 3:8, RV (AV, "having compassion"). See A, No. 3.