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Compassion, Compassionate
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
or "to have pity, a feeling of distress through the ills of others," is used of God's compassion, Romans 9:15 .
"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, Matthew 9:36; 14:14; 15:32; 18:27; 20:34; Mark 1:41; 6:34; 8:2; 9:22 (of the appeal of a father for a demon-possessed son); Luke 7:13; 10:33; of the father in the parable of the Prodigal Son, Luke 15:20 . (Moulton and Milligan consider the verb to have been coined in the Jewish dispersion).
"to suffer with another (sun, 'with,' pascho, 'to suffer'), to be affected similarly" (Eng., "sympathy"), to have "compassion" upon, Hebrews 10:34 , of "compassionating" those in prison, is translated "be touched with" in Hebrews 4:15 , of Christ as the High Priest. See TOUCH.
"to have mercy (eleos, "mercy"), to show kindness, by beneficence, or assistance," is translated "have compassion" in Matthew 18:33 (AV); Mark 5:19; Jude 1:22 . See MERCY.
is rendered "have compassion," in Hebrews 5:2 , AV. See BEAR , No. 13.
akin to A, No. 1, is used with splanchna (see below), "the viscera, the inward parts," as the seat of emotion, the "heart," Philippians 2:1; Colossians 3:12 , "a heart of compassion" (AV, "bowels of mercies"). In Hebrews 10:28 it is used with choris, "without," (lit., "without compassions"). It is translated "mercies" in Romans 12:1; 2 Corinthians 1:3 . See MERCY.
always used in the plural, is suitably rendered "compassion" in the RV of Colossians 3:12; 1 John 3:17; "compassions" in Philippians 2:1 , Cp. A, No. 2. See BOWELS.
denotes suffering with, "compassionate," 1 Peter 3:8 , RV (AV, "having compassion"). See A, No. 3.
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Compassion, Compassionate'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/c/compassion-compassionate.html. 1940.
