Compassion, Compassionate

"to have pity, a feeling of distress through the ills of others," is used of God's compassion, Rom 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, Mat 9:36, Mat 14:14, Mat 15:32, Mat 18:27, Mat 20:34, Mar 1:41, Mar 6:34, Mar 8:2, Mar 9:22 (of the appeal of a father for a demon-possessed son); Luk 7:13, Luk 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).

"to suffer with another (sun, 'with,' pascho, 'to suffer'), to be affected similarly" (Eng., "sympathy"), to have "compassion" upon, Heb 10:34, of "compassionating" those in prison, is translated "be touched with" in Heb 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 Mat 18:33 (AV); Mar 5:19, Jud 1:22. See MERCY.

is rendered "have compassion," in Heb 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," Phi 2:1, Col 3:12, "a heart of compassion" (AV, "bowels of mercies"). In Heb 10:28 it is used with choris, "without," (lit., "without compassions"). It is translated "mercies" in Rom 12:1, 2Co 1:3. See MERCY.

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

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