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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - σπλαγχνίζομαι
σπλαγχνίζομαι
G4697
Transliteration: splanchnízomai
Pronunciation: splangkh-nid'-zom-ahee
Definition: have compassion
- Original: σπλαγχνίζομαι - Transliteration: Splagchnizomai - Phonetic: splangkh-nid'-zom-ahee
- Definition:
1. to be moved as to one's bowels, hence to be moved with compassion, have compassion (for the bowels were thought to be the seat of love and pity)
- Origin: middle voice from G4698" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4698 - TDNT entry: 16:08,1 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: Middle voice from G4698" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4698; to have the bowels yearn that is (figuratively) feel sympathy to pity: - have (be moved with) compassion.