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Lexicon :: Strong's H7356 - raḥam

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רַחַם
Transliteration
raḥam
Pronunciation
rakh'-am
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Part of Speech
masculine noun, absolute state masculine plural intensive noun
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TWOT Reference: 2146a

Strong’s Definitions

רַחַם racham, rakh'-am; from H7355; compassion (in the plural); by extension, the womb (as cherishing the fetus); by implication, a maiden:—bowels, compassion, damsel, tender love, (great, tender) mercy, pity, womb.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 44x

The KJV translates Strong's H7356 in the following manner: mercy (30x), compassion (4x), womb (4x), bowels (2x), pity (2x), damsel (1x), tender love (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 44x
The KJV translates Strong's H7356 in the following manner: mercy (30x), compassion (4x), womb (4x), bowels (2x), pity (2x), damsel (1x), tender love (1x).
masculine noun

  1. womb

    absolute state masculine plural intensive noun

  2. compassion

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
רַחַם racham, rakh'-am; from H7355; compassion (in the plural); by extension, the womb (as cherishing the fetus); by implication, a maiden:—bowels, compassion, damsel, tender love, (great, tender) mercy, pity, womb.
STRONGS H7356: Abbreviations
† [H7358 רֶ֫חֶם], רַ֫הַם noun masculine[H7358Hosea 9:14] womb ...רַ֫חַם Judges 5:30, רָ֑חֶם ...רָ֑חַם Genesis 49:25 +;  ... dual רַחֲמָתַיִם H7356; H7361 Judges 5:30; —
1. womb, Genesis 49:25 (J)  ... (מִנִּי), Isaiah 46:3  ... Ezekiel 20:26  ... עֹצֶר ר׳ Proverbs 30:16
2. womb-man, woman-slave: רַחַם רַחֲמָתַיִם Judges 5:30 a woman, two women.

This is a portion of the full BDB entry H7358.

רַחֲמִים noun masculine 2 Samuel 24:14 absolute plural intensive compassion (according to many denominative from רֶחֶם, originally brotherhood, brotherly feeling, of those born from same womb, see NöZMG xl (1886), 151 (yet see 152) WeGGN 1893, 475 Gerber126, or motherly feeling Köii. 1, 34); — absolute ר׳ Genesis 43:14 +; construct רַחֲמֵי Proverbs 12:10; suffix רַחֲמָיו Lamentations 3:22 (Baer Gi; van d. H. Qr, Kt רחמו), 2 Samuel 24:14 Qr (> Kt רחמו), etc.; —
1. compassion: usually of God Isaiah 63:7, Isaiah 63:15; Psalm 77:10 [Psalm 77:9]; Psalm 79:8; Psalm 119:77; Zechariah 1:16; Daniel 9:9; Nehemiah 9:28; with רבים 2 Samuel 24:14 = 1 Chronicles 21:13; Nehemiah 9:19, Nehemiah 9:27, Nehemiah 9:31; Psalm 119:156; Daniel 9:18; גדולים Isaiah 54:7; || חסד Psalm 40:12 [Psalm 40:11]; Psalm 103:4; Hosea 2:21 [Hosea 2:19]; Jeremiah 16:5; חסדים Psalm 25:6; כרֹב רחמיךָ Psalm 51:3 [Psalm 51:1]; Psalm 69:17 [Psalm 69:16]; with על of thing Psalm 145:9; ל נתן ר׳ Deuteronomy 13:18 [Deuteronomy 13:17]; Jeremiah 42:12; לא כלו ר׳ Lamentations 3:22.
2. of man, Amos 1:11; Proverbs 12:10; עשׂה ר׳ Zechariah 7:9; לִפְנֵי ר׳ נָתַן לפ׳ Genesis 43:14 (R); נתן לִפְנֵי לר׳ פ׳ 1 Kings 8:50; Nehemiah 1:11; Daniel 1:9; Psalm 106:46, compare 2 Chronicles 30:9; ל שׂם ר׳ Isaiah 47:6; אל נִכְמְרוּ ר׳ Genesis 43:30 (J), with על 2 Kings 3:26.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H7359.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

43:14; 43:14; 43:30; 49:25; 49:25

Deuteronomy

13:17

Judges

5:30; 5:30; 5:30

2 Samuel

24:14; 24:14; 24:14

1 Kings

8:50

2 Kings

3:26

1 Chronicles

21:13

2 Chronicles

30:9

Nehemiah

1:11; 9:19; 9:27; 9:28; 9:31

Psalms

25:6; 40:11; 51:1; 69:16; 77:9; 79:8; 103:4; 106:46; 119:77; 119:156; 145:9

Proverbs

12:10; 12:10; 30:16

Isaiah

46:3; 47:6; 54:7; 63:7; 63:15

Jeremiah

16:5; 42:12

Lamentations

3:22; 3:22

Ezekiel

20:26

Daniel

1:9; 9:9; 9:18

Hosea

2:19

Amos

1:11

Zechariah

1:16; 7:9

H7356

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Strong's Number H7356 matches the Hebrew רַחַם (raḥam),
which occurs 45 times in 44 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:14 - May El Shaddai give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Binyamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:30 - Yosef made haste; for his heart yearned over his brother: and he sought a place to weep; and he entered into his room, and wept there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:25 - Even by the God of your father, who will help you, By Shaddai, who will bless you, With blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the deep that lies below, Blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:17 - There shall cleave nothing of the devoted thing to your hand; that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:30 - Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil? A lady, two ladies to every man; To Sisera a spoil of dyed garments, A spoil of dyed garments embroidered, Of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the spoil?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:14 - David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great; and let me not fall into the hand of man.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:26 - Then spoke the woman whose the living child was to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill it. But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:50

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:50 - and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:13 - David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall, I pray, into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: and let me not fall into the hand of man.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:9 - For if you turn again to the LORD, your brothers and your children shall find compassion before those who led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:11 - Lord, I beg you, let now your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. Now I was cup bearer to the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:19 - yet you in your manifold mercies didn't forsake them in the wilderness: the pillar of cloud didn't depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:27 - Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hand of their adversaries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:28 - But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore left you them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times did you deliver them according to your mercies,

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:31 - Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you did not make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:6 - LORD, remember your tender mercies and your lovingkindness, For they are from old times.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 40:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:11 - Don't withhold your tender mercies from me, LORD. Let your lovingkindness and your truth continually preserve me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 51:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:1 - For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Natan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bat-Sheva. Have mercy on me, God, according to your lovingkindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:16 - Answer me, LORD, for your lovingkindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 77:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:9 - Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?" Selah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 79:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:8 - Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, For we are in desperate need.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 103:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:4 - Who redeems your life from destruction; Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:46

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:46 - He made them also to be pitied By all those who carried them captive.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:77

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:77 - Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; For your law is my delight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:156

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:156 - Great are your tender mercies, LORD. Revive me according to your ordinances.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 145:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 145:9 - The LORD is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:10 - A righteous man regards the life of his animal, But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:16 - She'ol, The barren womb; The eretz that is not satisfied with water; And the fire that doesn't say, 'Enough.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 46:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:3 - Listen to me, house of Ya`akov, and all the remnant of the house of Yisra'el, that have been borne by me from their birth, that have been carried from the womb;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:6 - I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand: you did show them no mercy; on the aged have you very heavily laid your yoke.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 54:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:7 - For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 63:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:7 - I will make mention of the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Yisra'el, which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 63:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:15 - Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where are your zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:5 - For thus says the LORD, Don't enter into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken away my shalom from this people, says the LORD, even lovingkindness and tender mercies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 42:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:12 - I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:22 - It is of the LORD's lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:26 - and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that opens the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:9 - Now God made Daniyel to find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:9 - To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him;

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:18 - My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies' sake.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:19 - I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in lovingkindness, and in compassion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:11 - Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; Because he pursued his brother with the sword, And cast off all pity, And his anger raged continually, And he kept his wrath forever;

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:16 - Therefore thus says the LORD: "I have returned to Yerushalayim with mercy. My house shall be built in it," says the LORD of Hosts, "and a line shall be stretched forth over Yerushalayim."'

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:9 - "Thus has the LORD of Hosts spoken, saying, 'Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.
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