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  "type": "word",
  "id": "G1654",
  "lemma": "ἐλεημοσύνη",
  "transliteration": "eleēmosýnē",
  "definition": "compassionateness, i.e. (as exercised towards the poor) beneficence, or (concretely) a benefaction",
  "kjv": "alms(-deeds)",
  "occurrences": 66,
  "language": "Greek",
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    {
      "id": "G1656",
      "lemma": "ἔλεος",
      "transliteration": "éleos",
      "meaning": "compassion",
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    }
  ],
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  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 6:2",
      "text": "Therefore, when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a shofar before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/6?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 6:3",
      "text": "But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/6?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 6:4",
      "text": "so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/6?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Luke 11:41",
      "text": "But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/11?v=41"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Luke 12:33",
      "text": "Sell what you have and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/12?v=33"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Acts 3:2",
      "text": "A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/3?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Acts 3:3",
      "text": "Seeing Peter and Yochanan about to go into the temple, he asked to receive gifts for the needy.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/3?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Acts 3:10",
      "text": "They recognized him, that it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the Yafeh Gate of the temple…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/3?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Acts 9:36",
      "text": "Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tavita, which when translated means Dorcas. This woman was full of good…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/9?v=36"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Acts 10:2",
      "text": "a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/10?v=2"
    }
  ],
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