Definition

having a fellow-feeling ("sympathetic"), i.e. (by implication) mutually commiserative

Etymology

from G4841 (συμπάσχω);

Word family

• συμπάσχω sympáschō

How the KJV renders it

• having compassion one of another

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.