Strong's #4698: splagchnon (pronounced splangkh'-non)

probably strengthened from splen (the "spleen"); an intestine (plural); figuratively, pity or sympathy:--bowels, inward affection, + tender mercy.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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splagchnon

1) bowels, intestines, (the heart, lungs, liver, etc.)

1a) bowels

1b) the bowels were regarded as the seat of the more violent passions, such as anger and love; but by the Hebrews as the seat of the tenderer affections, especially kindness, benevolence, compassion; hence our heart (tender mercies, affections, etc.)

1c) a heart in which mercy resides

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: probably strengthened from splen (the "spleen" )

Citing in TDNT: 7:548, 1067

Usage:

This word is used 11 times:

 

Luke 1:78: "Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring"
Acts 1:18: "and all his bowels gushed out."
2 Corinthians 6:12: "ye are straitened in your own bowels."
2 Corinthians 7:15: "And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth"
Philippians 1:8: "you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ."
Philippians 2:1: "if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,"
Colossians 3:12: "holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness,"
Philemon 1:7: "love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by"
Philemon 1:12: "him, that is, mine own bowels:"
Philemon 1:20: "the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord."
1 John 3:17: "need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how"