ἐλέησον (eleeson)

ἐλέησον is an Ancient Greek form of ἐλεέω, meaning “pity, have mercy on”. It is the 2nd person singular aorist active imperative.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium 24: … Τρῳάς, μηδὲ μέγα κῦδος ὀρέξῃς Πηλεΐδῃ, αὐτὸς δὲ φίλης αἰῶνος ἀμερθῇς; πρὸς δʼ ἐμὲ τὸν δύστηνον ἔτι φρονέοντʼ ἐλέησον, δύσμορον, ὃν ῥα πατὴρ Κρονίδης ἐπὶ γήραος οὐδῷ αἴσῃ ἐν ἀργαλέῃ φθίσει, κακὰ πόλλʼ ἐπιδόντα, υἷάς τʼ ὀλλυμένο …

New Testament, Matthew 9.27: Καὶ παράγοντι ἐκεῖθεν τῷ Ἰησοῦ ἠκολούθησαν δύο τυφλοὶ κράζοντες καὶ λέγοντες Ἐλέησον ἡμᾶς, υἱὲ Δαυείδ.

All forms of ἐλεέω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.