Definition

merciless

Etymology

from G1 (Α) (as a negative particle) and G1655 (ἐλεήμων);

Word family

• Α A
• ἐλεήμων eleḗmōn

How the KJV renders it

• unmerciful

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.