The corpus record

ἐλε-ήμων

eleemon

pitiful, merciful

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Where it lives

Jonas 1 · 9.51/10k
On The Refusal Of A Pension 1 · 7.03/10k
Joel 1 · 6.49/10k
Psalmi Salomonis 3 · 6.31/10k
Tobias (cod. Vat. et Alex.) 2 · 3.81/10k
Proverbia 4 · 3.6/10k
Machabaeorum II 4 · 3.46/10k
Hebrews 1 · 1.99/10k
Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k
Psalmi 6 · 1.75/10k
Esdras II 2 · 1.69/10k
Siracides 3 · 1.63/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἐλε-ήμων · ele-ēmōn — LSJ

pitiful, merciful

pitiful, merciful, Od. 5.191, D. 21.101, LXX Ps. 111(112).4, Ev.Matt. 5.7; of God, LXX Ex. 34.6, al.: c. gen., Ar. Pax 425:—Comp. and Sup., ἐλεημονέστερος, -τατος, Arist. HA 608b8, Lys. 24.7. Adv. -μόνως, condemned by Poll. 8.11.

In the wild

ἐλεήμων · eleēmōn Aristophanes, Peace 1.425 (DIORISIS sentence 324)
ἐλεήμονας · eleēmonas Aristotle, Politics 1342a (DIORISIS sentence 3133)
ἐλεήμων · eleēmōn Demosthenes, Against Midias 101 (DIORISIS sentence 309)
ἐλεήμονάς · eleēmonas Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6299)
ἐλεήμονα · eleēmona Epictetus, Discourses 2.21 (DIORISIS sentence 3279)
ἐλεήμονα · eleēmona Epictetus, Discourses 2.21 (DIORISIS sentence 3276)

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Where it came from

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