Original Word: οἰκτείρω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: oiktiró
Phonetic Spelling: (oyk-ti'-ro)
Definition: to pity, to have compassion on
Usage: I pity, have compassion on.

Cognate: 3627 oikteírō properly, to respond with deep sensitivity (compassion, sympathy). This term is only used of the Lord in the NT (both time in Ro 9:15). See 3628 (oiktirmos).

Word Origin
from oiktos (pity)
Definition
to pity, to have compassion on
NASB Translation
have compassion (2).

STRONGS NT 3627: οἰκτείρω

οἰκτείρω; future (as if from οἰκτειρέω, a form which does not exist) as in the Sept. οἰκτειρήσω, for the earlier οἰκτείρω, see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 741; (Veitch, under the word; Winers Grammar, 88 (84); Buttmann, 64 (56)); (from οἶκτος pity, and this from the interjection οἱ, "Oh!); to pity, have compassion on": τινα, Romans 9:15 (from Exodus 33:19. Homer, Tragg., Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, Demosthenes, Lucian, Plutarch, Aelian; the Sept. for חָנַן and רָחַם). (Synonym: see ἐληω, at the end.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

have compassion on.

Also (in certain tenses) prolonged oiktereo oyk-ter-eh'-o from oiktos (pity); to exercise pity -- have compassion on.

Forms and Transliterations

οικτείρει οικτειρήσαι οικτειρήσει οικτειρήσεις οικτειρήση οικτειρήσης οικτείρησόν οικτειρήσουσι οικτειρήσουσιν οικτειρησω οικτειρήσω οἰκτειρήσω οικτειρω οικτειρώ οικτείρω οἰκτείρω οικτείρων οἰκτιρήσω οἰκτίρω ωκτείρησας ωκτείρησε ωκτείρησεν oiktireso oiktirēsō oiktirḗso oiktirḗsō oiktiro oiktirō oiktíro oiktírō

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