Strong's #1654: eleemosune (pronounced el-eh-ay-mos-oo'-nay)

from 1656; compassionateness, i.e. (as exercised towards the poor) beneficence, or (concretely) a benefaction:--alms(-deeds).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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eleēmosunē

1) mercy, pity

1a) especially as exhibited in giving alms, charity

2) the benefaction itself, a donation to the poor, alms

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G1656

Citing in TDNT: 2:485, 222

Usage:

This word is used 15 times:

 

Matthew 6:1: "that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them:"
Matthew 6:2: "Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee,"
Matthew 6:3: "But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know"
Matthew 6:4: "That thine alms may be in secret: and thy"
Luke 11:41: "But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are"
Luke 12:33: "that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags"
Acts 3:2: "temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into"
Acts 3:3: "temple asked an alms."
Acts 3:10: "he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate"
Acts 9:36: "of good works and almsdeeds which she did."
Acts 10:2: "which gave much alms to the people, and prayed"
Acts 10:4: "prayers and thine alms are come up for"
Acts 10:4: "prayers and thine alms are come up for"
Acts 10:31: "is heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God."
Acts 24:17: "years I came to bring alms to my nation, and"