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6.
(
$ !$
, 4022), lit., “to go, or come, about” ( , “about,”
, “to come”), is translated in Acts 28:13,
KJV
, “fetched a compass.” See
CIRCUIT
.
COMPASSION, COMPASSIONATE
A. Verbs.
1.
(
*
&$
, 3627), “to have pity, a feeling of distress through the ills of
others,” is used of God’s compassion, Rom. 9:15.¶
2.
(
&
, 4697), “to be moved as to one’s inwards
(
), to be moved with compassion, to yearn with compassion,” is frequently
recorded of Christ towards the multitude and towards individual sufferers, Matt. 9:36;
14:14; 15:32; 18:27; 20:34; Mark 1:41; 6:34; 8:2; 9:22 (of the appeal of a father for a
demon-possessed son); Luke 7:13; 10:33; of the father in the parable of the Prodigal Son,
15:20. (Moulton and Milligan consider the verb to have been coined in the Jewish
dispersion).¶
3.
$
(
!
, 4834), “to suffer with another (
$
, ‘with,’
, ‘to
suffer’), to be affected similarly” (Eng., “sympathy”), to have “compassion” upon, Heb.
10:34, of “compassionating” those in prison, is translated “be touched with” in Heb. 4:15,
of Christ as the High Priest. See
TOUCH
.¶
4.
(
# !
, 1653), “to have mercy (
, “mercy”), to show kindness, by
beneficence, or assistance,” is translated “have compassion” in Matt. 18:33 (
KJV
); Mark
5:19 and Jude 22. See
MERCY
.
5.
(
$
!
, 3356) is rendered “have compassion,” in Heb. 5:2,
KJV
. See
BEAR
, No. 13.¶
B. Nouns.
1.
(
*
$
, 3628), akin to A, No. 1, is used with
(see below),
“the viscera, the inward parts,” as the seat of emotion, the “heart,” Phil. 2:1; Col. 3:12, “a
heart of compassion” (
KJV
, “bowels of mercies”). In Heb. 10:28 it is used with
,
“without,” (lit., “without compassions”). It is translated “mercies” in Rom. 12:1 and 2
Cor. 1:3. See
MERCY
.¶
2.
(
1
, 4698), always used in the plural, is suitably rendered
“compassion” in the
RV
of Col. 3:12 and 1 John 3:17; “compassions” in Phil. 2:1, Cf. A,
No. 2. See
BOWELS
.
C. Adjective.
$
(
)
, 4835) denotes suffering with, “compassionate,” 1 Pet. 3:8,
RV
(
KJV
, “having compassion”). See A, No. 3.¶
COMPEL
1.
(
1
, 315) denotes “to put constraint upon (from
,
‘necessity’), to constrain, whether by threat, entreaty, force or persuasion”; Christ
“constrained” the disciples to get into a boat, Matt. 14:22; Mark 6:45; the servants of the
man who made a great supper were to constrain people to come in, Luke 14:23 (
RV
,
“constrain”); Saul of Tarsus “strove” to make saints blaspheme, Acts 26:11,
RV
(
KJV
,
“compelled”); Titus, though a Greek, was not “compelled” to be circumcised, Gal. 2:3, as