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« on: January 10, 2013, 07:54:52 PM »
I hope I cut & pasted the right part of "Kyrie eleison".  I'm wondering if the greek word says something more or different than the english word "mercy"?  I don't know anything about greek so hopefully you can just talk around the point in english to convey something of the real meaning for me???  But if it just means exactly "mercy" then that's OK too...

thanks in advance for you help...
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« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2013, 08:01:42 PM »
Eleos and eleison are the Greek words for mercy and have mercy. In both English and Greek, there is the nuance of such an act being done out of goodness, not duty.
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« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2013, 08:02:43 PM »
Ελέησον = have mercy. It's the imperative of the verb ελεώ, from which the noun έλεος (mercy) derives.

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« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2013, 08:52:17 PM »
OK, thanks... the reason I asked is somebody in another thread was having a major hissy fit about how all the translated versions were wrong, etc. etc.   I guess he must have had some private revelation on the matter?   Wink
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« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2013, 09:23:28 PM »
Quote from: Theophan_C on January 10, 2013, 08:52:17 PM
OK, thanks... the reason I asked is somebody in another thread was having a major hissy fit about how all the translated versions were wrong, etc. etc.   I guess he must have had some private revelation on the matter?   Wink

More like he was misinformed or confused.
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