Pity
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PITY.This word is entirely synonymous with compassion both in OT and NT, except, perhaps, in 1Pe_3:8, where sympathetic would better express the meaning of the original word (see RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ). Pity was regarded by OT writers as holding an essential place in the relations of God and His people (see Psa_78:38; Psa_86:15; Psa_103:13; Psa_111:4; Psa_112:4; Psa_145:8, Isa_63:8; cf. Jam_5:11). One of the ways in which this Divine feeling became active on their behalf reveals an incipient belief in the dealings of Jehovah with nations other than Israel; for He is often represented as infusing compassion for His chosen into the hearts of their enemies (cf. 1Ki_8:50, 2Ch_30:9, Psa_106:46, Ezr_9:9, Neh_1:11, Jer_42:12). An objective manifestation of the feeling of pity in the heart of God was recognized in the preservation of His people from destruction (Lam_3:22 f.), and in the numerous instances which were regarded as the interventions of mercy on their behalf (cf. Exo_15:13, Num_14:19, Deu_13:17; Deu_30:3, 2Ki_13:23, 2Ch_36:15). The direct result of this belief was that Israelites were expected to display a similar disposition towards their brethren (cf. Mic_6:8, Isa_1:17, Jer_21:12, Pro_19:17). They were not required, however, to look beyond the limits of their own race (Deu_7:16, See Deu_7:9) except in the case of individual aliens who might at any time be living within their borders (see Exo_22:21; Exo_23:9, Deu_10:18 f. etc.).
In the parable of the Unmerciful Servant, Jesus inculcates the exercise of pity in mens dealings with each other, and teaches the sacredness of its character by emphasizing its identity with Gods compassion for sinners (Mat_18:33; cf. Luk_6:36, Mat_5:7; Mat_9:18). The teaching of Jesus, moreover, broadened its conception in the human mind by insisting that henceforth it could never be confined to the members of the Jewish nation (cf. the parable of the Good Samaritan, Luk_10:25-37). At the same time His own attitude to the thronging multitudes surrounding Him was characterized by profound pity for their weaknesses (Mat_15:32 = Mar_8:2; cf. Mat_9:36; Mat_14:14). Under His guidance, too, Divine pity for the world was transmuted into that Eternal Love which resulted in the Incarnation (Joh_3:16). Side by side with this development, and in exact correspondence with it, Jesus evolves out of human pity for frailty the more fundamental, because it is the more living, quality of love, which He insists will be active even in the face of enmity (Mat_5:43 f., Luk_6:27 ff.).
J. R. Willis.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
pit?i (חמל, ḥāmal, חוּס, ḥūṣ; ἐλεέω, eleéō): ?Pity,? probably contracted from ?piety,? is tender feeling for others in misery or distress. It is allied to compassion (which see), but differs in respect of the object that causes the distress (or feeling). The feeling of pity is excited chiefly by the weakness, miserable or degraded condition of the object; compassion by his uncontrollable and inevitable misfortunes: ?We pity a man of weak understanding who exposes his weakness; we compassionate the man who is reduced to a state of beggary and want? (Crabb, English Synonyms). Pity often becomes allied to contempt; ?a pity? is something to be regretted. See PITIFUL. In the Old Testament ?pity? is closely akin to ?mercy.? It is most frequently the translation of ḥāmal, ?to pity,? ?to spare,? e.g. in Nathan's parable of the poor man's one lamb, it is said that the rich man was worthy to die because he had ?no pity? (2Sa_12:6).
In Jer_13:14 we have, ?I will not pity nor spare, nor have mercy,? the Revised Version (British and American) ?compassion?; compare Jer_21:7; Lam_2:2; Eze_5:11; Eze_7:4, in all of which passages ?pity? stands in a negative connection; we have it positively attributed to God in Eze_36:21, ?I had pity for mine holy name,? the Revised Version (British and American) ?regard?; Joe_2:18; ḥūṣ, probably meaning, primarily, ?to cover,? ?protect,? hence, to pity, to spare, is translated ?pity? (Deu_7:16; Deu_13:8; Eze_16:5, etc., all negative; Jon_4:10, positive: ?Thou hast had pity on the gourd (the Revised Version (British and American) ?regard for?) and should not I spare (the Revised Version (British and American) ?have regard for,? ḥūṣ) Nineveh,? etc.); ḥānan, ?to incline, toward,? ?be gracious,? ?pity,? is thrice rendered ?pity? (Job_19:21, ?Have pity upon me, have pity upon me?; Pro_19:17; Pro_28:8, ?he that hath pity upon the poor?); rāḥam, ?to feel warm,? ?to love,? twice (Psa_103:13, ?like as a father pitieth his children?; Isa_13:18, ?no pity?); once in plural raḥămı̄m (Amo_1:11); other words once so translated are ḥemlāh, ?pity? (Isa_63:9); ḥeṣedh, ?loving-kindness? (Job_6:14, the Revised Version (British and American) ?kindness?); maḥmāl, ?object of pity? (Eze_24:21); nūdh,? to move,? ?bemoan? (Psa_69:20). In the New Testament ?pity? occurs once only as the translation of eleeō, ?to be kind,? ?tender? (Mat_18:33, the Revised Version (British and American) ?mercy?). In 2 Macc 3:21 we have (the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American)) ?pitied? in the obsolete sense of exciting pity, ?Then it would have pitied (eleeı́n) a man to see the multitude,? etc.
The Revised Version (British and American) has ?pity? for ?mercy? (Pro_14:21); ?have pity on? for ?spare? (Psa_72:13); for ?favour? (Psa_109:12; Psa_102:13, Psa_102:14), ?Have pity upon her dust.? See MERCY; COMPASSION.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Pity
is usually defined to be the uneasiness we feel at the unhappiness of others, prompting us to compassionate them, with a desire for their relief. God is said to pity them that fear him, as a father pitieth his children (Psa_103:13). Pity is thus a Christian grace, to the practice of which we are exhorted by the apostle: Love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous (1Pe_3:8). The phrase נָשַׁים רִחֲמִנַיּוֹת, nashim rachamaniyoth, rendered pitiful women in our version (Lam_4:10), properly refers to the tenderness and affectionate love which is the distinguishing trait of the female character; and that such women should in the siege and the straitness be driven to and adopt the terrible expedient of feeding upon their own children, as in this passage they are stated to have done, is an awful instance of the literal fulfillment of the threatenings of the Lord in the event of the disobedience of the house of Israel (Deu_28:57). The same horrible expedient was resorted to also in the last siege of Jerusalem, as it had formerly been at the siege of Samaria, in the reign of Ahab (2Ki_6:28-29).
Pitiful is a word whose derivations have by modern usage been almost limited to the sense of mean, contemptible, or insignificant. In the Bible and Prayerbook the old and primary meaning of full of mercy compassionate, or tender, is retained. The English Prayer-book gives us these examples: ... though we be tied and bound with the chain of our sins, yet let the pitifulness of thy great mercy loose us. Occasional Prayer. Again: Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts; which petition in the Litany is thus altered in the American Prayer-book, With pity behold the sorrows of our hearts. In these the original and better sense of the word is alone intended. In the Primer of king Edward VI there is this expression: O pitiful Physician, and Healer both of body and soul, Christ Jesu! And Latimer, in his sermon on the birth of Christ, remarks: Preachers exhort us to godliness, to do good works, to be pitiful and liberal unto the poor; that is, to be compassionate, tenderhearted, and sympathizing to them.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.
In the parable of the Unmerciful Servant, Jesus inculcates the exercise of pity in mens dealings with each other, and teaches the sacredness of its character by emphasizing its identity with Gods compassion for sinners (Mat_18:33; cf. Luk_6:36, Mat_5:7; Mat_9:18). The teaching of Jesus, moreover, broadened its conception in the human mind by insisting that henceforth it could never be confined to the members of the Jewish nation (cf. the parable of the Good Samaritan, Luk_10:25-37). At the same time His own attitude to the thronging multitudes surrounding Him was characterized by profound pity for their weaknesses (Mat_15:32 = Mar_8:2; cf. Mat_9:36; Mat_14:14). Under His guidance, too, Divine pity for the world was transmuted into that Eternal Love which resulted in the Incarnation (Joh_3:16). Side by side with this development, and in exact correspondence with it, Jesus evolves out of human pity for frailty the more fundamental, because it is the more living, quality of love, which He insists will be active even in the face of enmity (Mat_5:43 f., Luk_6:27 ff.).
J. R. Willis.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
pit?i (חמל, ḥāmal, חוּס, ḥūṣ; ἐλεέω, eleéō): ?Pity,? probably contracted from ?piety,? is tender feeling for others in misery or distress. It is allied to compassion (which see), but differs in respect of the object that causes the distress (or feeling). The feeling of pity is excited chiefly by the weakness, miserable or degraded condition of the object; compassion by his uncontrollable and inevitable misfortunes: ?We pity a man of weak understanding who exposes his weakness; we compassionate the man who is reduced to a state of beggary and want? (Crabb, English Synonyms). Pity often becomes allied to contempt; ?a pity? is something to be regretted. See PITIFUL. In the Old Testament ?pity? is closely akin to ?mercy.? It is most frequently the translation of ḥāmal, ?to pity,? ?to spare,? e.g. in Nathan's parable of the poor man's one lamb, it is said that the rich man was worthy to die because he had ?no pity? (2Sa_12:6).
In Jer_13:14 we have, ?I will not pity nor spare, nor have mercy,? the Revised Version (British and American) ?compassion?; compare Jer_21:7; Lam_2:2; Eze_5:11; Eze_7:4, in all of which passages ?pity? stands in a negative connection; we have it positively attributed to God in Eze_36:21, ?I had pity for mine holy name,? the Revised Version (British and American) ?regard?; Joe_2:18; ḥūṣ, probably meaning, primarily, ?to cover,? ?protect,? hence, to pity, to spare, is translated ?pity? (Deu_7:16; Deu_13:8; Eze_16:5, etc., all negative; Jon_4:10, positive: ?Thou hast had pity on the gourd (the Revised Version (British and American) ?regard for?) and should not I spare (the Revised Version (British and American) ?have regard for,? ḥūṣ) Nineveh,? etc.); ḥānan, ?to incline, toward,? ?be gracious,? ?pity,? is thrice rendered ?pity? (Job_19:21, ?Have pity upon me, have pity upon me?; Pro_19:17; Pro_28:8, ?he that hath pity upon the poor?); rāḥam, ?to feel warm,? ?to love,? twice (Psa_103:13, ?like as a father pitieth his children?; Isa_13:18, ?no pity?); once in plural raḥămı̄m (Amo_1:11); other words once so translated are ḥemlāh, ?pity? (Isa_63:9); ḥeṣedh, ?loving-kindness? (Job_6:14, the Revised Version (British and American) ?kindness?); maḥmāl, ?object of pity? (Eze_24:21); nūdh,? to move,? ?bemoan? (Psa_69:20). In the New Testament ?pity? occurs once only as the translation of eleeō, ?to be kind,? ?tender? (Mat_18:33, the Revised Version (British and American) ?mercy?). In 2 Macc 3:21 we have (the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American)) ?pitied? in the obsolete sense of exciting pity, ?Then it would have pitied (eleeı́n) a man to see the multitude,? etc.
The Revised Version (British and American) has ?pity? for ?mercy? (Pro_14:21); ?have pity on? for ?spare? (Psa_72:13); for ?favour? (Psa_109:12; Psa_102:13, Psa_102:14), ?Have pity upon her dust.? See MERCY; COMPASSION.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Pity
is usually defined to be the uneasiness we feel at the unhappiness of others, prompting us to compassionate them, with a desire for their relief. God is said to pity them that fear him, as a father pitieth his children (Psa_103:13). Pity is thus a Christian grace, to the practice of which we are exhorted by the apostle: Love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous (1Pe_3:8). The phrase נָשַׁים רִחֲמִנַיּוֹת, nashim rachamaniyoth, rendered pitiful women in our version (Lam_4:10), properly refers to the tenderness and affectionate love which is the distinguishing trait of the female character; and that such women should in the siege and the straitness be driven to and adopt the terrible expedient of feeding upon their own children, as in this passage they are stated to have done, is an awful instance of the literal fulfillment of the threatenings of the Lord in the event of the disobedience of the house of Israel (Deu_28:57). The same horrible expedient was resorted to also in the last siege of Jerusalem, as it had formerly been at the siege of Samaria, in the reign of Ahab (2Ki_6:28-29).
Pitiful is a word whose derivations have by modern usage been almost limited to the sense of mean, contemptible, or insignificant. In the Bible and Prayerbook the old and primary meaning of full of mercy compassionate, or tender, is retained. The English Prayer-book gives us these examples: ... though we be tied and bound with the chain of our sins, yet let the pitifulness of thy great mercy loose us. Occasional Prayer. Again: Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts; which petition in the Litany is thus altered in the American Prayer-book, With pity behold the sorrows of our hearts. In these the original and better sense of the word is alone intended. In the Primer of king Edward VI there is this expression: O pitiful Physician, and Healer both of body and soul, Christ Jesu! And Latimer, in his sermon on the birth of Christ, remarks: Preachers exhort us to godliness, to do good works, to be pitiful and liberal unto the poor; that is, to be compassionate, tenderhearted, and sympathizing to them.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.
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