# G1654 ἐλεημοσύνη

ἐλεημοσύνη (eleēmosýnē), Strong’s G1654: compassionateness, i.e. (as exercised towards the poor) beneficence, or (concretely) a benefaction KJV: alms(-deeds). Occurs 66 times.

Source: https://besorah.bible/word/G1654 — Besorah, the whole Bible in Hebrew, Greek and English. Texts and licences: https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html

*eleēmosýnē* — compassionateness, i.e. (as exercised towards the poor) beneficence, or (concretely) a benefaction

KJV: alms(-deeds)

Derived from [ἔλεος éleos](https://besorah.bible/word/G1656) (compassion)

Occurs 66 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Matthew 6:2](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/6?v=2) — Therefore, when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a shofar before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and…
- [Matthew 6:3](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/6?v=3) — But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does,
- [Matthew 6:4](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/6?v=4) — so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
- [Luke 11:41](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/11?v=41) — But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.
- [Luke 12:33](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/12?v=33) — Sell what you have and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the…
- [Acts 3:2](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/3?v=2) — A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple…
- [Acts 3:3](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/3?v=3) — Seeing Peter and Yochanan about to go into the temple, he asked to receive gifts for the needy.
- [Acts 3:10](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/3?v=10) — They recognized him, that it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the Yafeh Gate of the temple…
- [Acts 9:36](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/9?v=36) — Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tavita, which when translated means Dorcas. This woman was full of good…
- [Acts 10:2](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/10?v=2) — a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and…