ἐλεημοσύνη: Difference between revisions

|txtha=ἐλεημοσύνης, ἡ ([[ἐλεήμων]]), the Sept. for חֶסֶד and צְדָקָה ([[see]] [[δικαιοσύνη]], 1b.);<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[mercy]], [[pity]] ([[Callimachus]] (260 B.C.>) in Del. 152; as exhibited in giving [[alms]], [[charity]]: ποιεῖν ἐλεημοσύνην, to [[practise]] the [[virtue]] of [[mercy]] or [[beneficence]], to [[show]] [[one]]'s [[compassion]] (A. V. do [[alms]]) (cf. the [[similar]] phrases δικαιοσύνην, ἀλήθειαν, etc. ποιεῖν), 2,3, (חֶסֶד עָשָׂה, ἐλεημοσύνας, acts of [[beneficence]], benefactions (cf. Winer s Grammar, 176 (166); Buttmann, 77 (67)), [[εἰς]] τινα, the [[benefaction]] itself, a [[donation]] to the [[poor]], [[alms]] (the German Almosen (and the English [[alms]]) [[being]] ([[alike]]) a [[corruption]] of the Greek [[word]]): ἐλεημοσύνην διδόναι ([[Diogenes]] Laërtius 5,17)), αἰτεῖν, λαμβάνειν, [[πρός]] [[τήν]] ἐλεημοσύνην for (the [[purpose]] of [[asking]]) [[alms]], Acts 10:4,31.