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Strong's #7355: racham (pronounced raw-kham')

a primitive root; to fondle; by implication, to love, especially to compassionate:--have compassion (on, upon), love, (find, have, obtain, shew) mercy(-iful, on, upon), (have) pity, Ruhamah, X surely.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

râcham

1) to love, love deeply, have mercy, be compassionate, have tender affection, have compassion

1a) (Qal) to love

1b) (Piel)

1b1) to have compassion, be compassionate

1b1a) of God, man

1c) (Pual) to be shown compassion, be compassionate

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 47 times:

Exodus 33:19: "thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy."
Exodus 33:19: "I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy."
Deuteronomy 13:17: "from the fierceness of his anger, and show thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as"
Deuteronomy 30:3: "will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all"
1 Kings 8:50: "them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on"
2 Kings 13:23: "And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with"
Psalms 18:1: "his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said, I will love thee, O LORD, my strength."
Psalms 102:13: "Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favor her, yea,"
Psalms 103:13: "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear"
Psalms 103:13: "pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear"
Psalms 116:5: "is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful."
Proverbs 28:13: "prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy."
Isaiah 9:17: "joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for"
Isaiah 13:18: "also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not"
Isaiah 14:1: "For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel,"
Isaiah 27:11: "therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favor."
Isaiah 30:18: "that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment:"
Isaiah 49:10: "nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water"
Isaiah 49:13: "the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted."
Isaiah 49:15: "Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea,"
Isaiah 54:8: "thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer."
Isaiah 54:10: "of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy"
Isaiah 55:7: "and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly"
Isaiah 60:10: "in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favor have I had mercy"
Jeremiah 6:23: "they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride"
Jeremiah 12:15: "after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage,"
Jeremiah 13:14: "nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy"
Jeremiah 21:7: "spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy."
Jeremiah 30:18: "the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwelling places; and the city shall be built upon"
Jeremiah 31:20: "against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy"
Jeremiah 31:20: "against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy"
Jeremiah 33:26: "and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy"
Jeremiah 42:12: "And I will show mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land."
Jeremiah 50:42: "they are cruel, and will not show mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride"
Lamentations 3:32: "But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies."
Ezekiel 39:25: "the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous"
Hosea 1:6: "for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel;"
Hosea 1:7: " But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save"
Hosea 2:1: "ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah."
Hosea 2:4: "And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms."
Hosea 2:23: "And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not"
Hosea 2:23: "and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou"
Hosea 14:3: "Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy."
Micah 7:19: "He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths"
Habakkuk 3:2: "make known; in wrath remember mercy."
Zechariah 1:12: "how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities"
Zechariah 10:6: "of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off:"









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