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International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Clemency:

klem'-en-si (epietkeia, "fairness," "sweet reasonableness," Ac 24:4): The Greek word is rendered elsewhere "gentleness," 2Co 10:1; Tit 3:2, "meekhess"; Jas 3:17; 1Pe 2:18.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
1 Strong's Number: g1932 Greek: epieikeia

Clemency:

"mildness, gentleness, kindness" (what Matthew Arnold has called "sweet reasonableness"), is translated "clemency" in Act 24:4; elsewhere, in 2Cr 10:1, of the gentleness of Christ.
See GENTLENESS. Cp. epieikes (see FORBEARANCE).

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