- Transliteration: Splagchnon

- Phonetic: splangkh'-non

- Definition:

1. bowels, intestines, (the heart, lungs, liver, etc.)

a. bowels

b. the bowels were regarded as the seat of the more violent passions, such as anger and love; but by the Hebrews as the seat of the tenderer affections, esp. kindness, benevolence, compassion; hence our heart (tender mercies, affections, etc.)

c. a heart in which mercy resides

- Origin: "probably strengthened from splen (the "spleen")"

- TDNT entry: 16:08,1

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Neuter

- Strong's: Probably strengthened from σπλήν splē n (the spleen); an intestine (plural); figuratively pity or sympathy: - bowels inward affection + tender mercy.