ἔλεος

Detailed Definition

• 1mercy: kindness or good will towards the miserable and the afflicted, joined with a desire to help them
• 2of men towards men: to exercise the virtue of mercy, show one's self merciful
• 3of god towards men: in general providence; the mercy and clemency of god in providing and offering to men salvation by christ
• 4the mercy of christ, whereby at his return to judgment he will bless true christians with eternal life