Mercy

Rom 12.8:  the gift of mercy

• Eleeo: to have pity on, to show mercy toward
  • Have compassion on
  • To extend help for the consequences of sin
    • As opposed to sklerunomai, to be hardened, Mt 25.24, Rom 2.5
  • The general meaning is to have compassion ... on a person in unhappy circumstances... (including) an active desire to remove those miseries. AMG's Complete Word Study Dictionaries - The Complete Word Study Dictionary – New Testament.
  • Synonyms of the emotional component of the word but not the action part:
    • lupeo, to be sad, sorry;
    • splagchnízomai, to have a yearning heart (“bowels of mercy”), feel sympathy, pity;
    • sumpatho, to have sympathy, compassion;
    • sumpascho, to suffer with