Strong's #2347: chuwc (pronounced khoos)

a primitive root; properly, to cover, i.e. (figuratively) to compassionate:--pity, regard, spare.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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chûs

1) (Qal) to pity, have compassion, spare, look upon with compassion

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 24 times:

 

Genesis 45:20: " Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land"
Deuteronomy 7:16: "thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve"
Deuteronomy 13:8: "unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither"
Deuteronomy 19:13: "shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel,"
Deuteronomy 19:21: "shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth"
Deuteronomy 25:12: "her hand, thine eye shall not pity"
1 Samuel 24:10: "in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth"
Nehemiah 13:22: "me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy."
Psalms 72:13: " He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy."
Isaiah 13:18: "of the womb; their eye shall not spare children."
Jeremiah 13:14: "I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy"
Jeremiah 21:7: "and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity,"
Ezekiel 5:11: "will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity."
Ezekiel 7:4: "shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense"
Ezekiel 7:9: "shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways"
Ezekiel 8:18: "in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears"
Ezekiel 9:5: "and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:"
Ezekiel 9:10: "also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way"
Ezekiel 16:5: "eye pitied thee, to do any of these"
Ezekiel 20:17: " spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end"
Ezekiel 24:14: "it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings,"
Joel 2:17: "the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give"
Jonah 4:10: "the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not"
Jonah 4:11: "I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein"