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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
Root Word (Etymology)
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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 44 times in 44 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:14 - And my God give you favour in the sight of the man, and send away your other brother, and Benjamin, for I accordingly as I have been bereaved, am bereaved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:30 - And Joseph was troubled, for his bowels yearned over his brother, and he sought to weep; and he went into his chamber, and wept there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:25 - and my God helped thee, and he blessed thee with the blessing of heaven from above, and the blessing of the earth possessing all things, because of the blessing of the breasts and of the womb,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:17 - (LXX 13:18) And there shall nothing of the cursed thing cleave to thy hand, that the Lord may turn from his fierce anger, and [fn]shew thee mercy, and pity thee, and multiply thee, as he sware to thy fathers;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:30 - Will they not find him dividing the spoil? he will surely [fn]be gracious to every man: there are spoils of dyed garments for Sisara, spoils of various dyed garments, dyed embroidered garments, they are the spoils for his neck.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:14 - And David said to Gad, On every side [fn]I am much straitened: let me fall now into the hands of the Lord, for his compassions are very many; and let me not fall into the hands of man.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:26 - And the woman whose the living child was, answered and said to the king, (for her [fn]bowels yearned over her son) and she said, I pray thee, my lord, give her the child, and in nowise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor hers; divide it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:50

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:50 - and thou shalt be merciful to their unrighteousness wherein they have trespassed against thee, and according to all their transgressions wherewith they have transgressed against thee, and thou shalt [fn]cause them to be pitied before them that carried them captives, and they shall have compassion on them:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:13 - And David said to Gad, They are very hard for me, even all the three: let me fall now into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies are very abundant, and let me not fall by any means into the hands of man.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:9 - For when ye turn to the Lord, your brethren and your children shall be pitied before all that have carried them captives, and he will restore you to this land: for the Lord our God is merciful and pitiful, and will not turn away his face from you, if we return to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:11 - Turn not away, I pray thee, O Lord, but let thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and cause him to find mercy in the sight of this man. Now I was the king's cup-bearer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:19 - Yet thou in thy great compassions didst not forsake them in the wilderness: thou didst not turn away from them the pillar of the cloud by day, to guide them in the way, nor the pillar of fire by night, to enlighten for them the way wherein they should walk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:27 - Then thou gavest them into the hand of them that afflicted them, and they did afflict them: and they cried to thee in the time of their affliction, and thou didst hear them from thy heaven, and in thy great compassions gavest them deliverers, and didst save them from the hand of them that afflicted them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:28 - But when they rested, they did evil again before thee: so thou leftest them in the hands of their enemies, and they ruled over them: and they cried again to thee, and thou heardest them from heaven, and didst deliver them in thy great compassions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:31 - But thou in thy many mercies didst not appoint them to destruction, and didst not forsake them; for thou art strong, and merciful, and pitiful.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:6 - (LXX 24:6) Remember thy compassions, O Lord, and thy mercies, for they are from everlasting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:11 - (LXX 39:12) But thou, Lord, remove not thy compassion far from me; thy mercy and thy truth have helped me continually.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:1 - (LXX 50:1) For the end, a Psalm of David, (50:2) when Nathan the prophet came to him, when he had gone in to Bersabee. (50:3) Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy great mercy; and according to the multitude of thy compassions blot out my transgression.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:16 - (LXX 68:17) Hear me, O Lord; for thy mercy is good: according to the multitude of thy compassions look upon me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:9 - (LXX 76:10) Will God forget to pity? or will he shut up his compassions in his wrath? Pause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:8 - (LXX 78:8) Remember not our old transgressions; let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us; for we are greatly impoverished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:4 - (LXX 102:4) who redeems thy life from corruption; who crowns thee with mercy and compassion;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:46 - (LXX 105:46) And he caused them to be pitied in the sight of all who carried them captive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:77

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:77 - (LXX 118:77) Let thy compassions come to me, that I may live: for thy law is my meditation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:156

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:156 - (LXX 118:156) Thy mercies, O Lord, are many: quicken me according to thy judgment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 145:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 145:9 - (LXX 144:9) The Lord is good to those that wait on him; and his compassions are over all his works.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:10 - A righteous man has pity for the lives of his cattle; but the bowels of the ungodly are unmerciful.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:16 - The grave, and the love of a woman, and the earth not filled with water; water also and fire will not say, It is enough.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:3 - Hear me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of Israel, who are borne by me from the womb, and taught by me from infancy, even to old age:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:6 - I have been provoked with my people; thou hast defiled mine inheritance: I gave them into thy hand, but thou didst not extend mercy to them: thou madest the yoke of the aged man very heavy,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:7 - For a little while I left thee: but with great mercy will I have compassion upon thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:7 - I remembered the mercy of the Lord, the [fn] praises of the Lord in all things wherein he recompenses us. The Lord is a good judge to the house of Israel; he deals with us according to his mercy, and according to the abundance of his righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:15 - Turn from heaven, and look from thy holy habitation and from thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength? where is the abundance of thy mercy and of thy compassions, that thou hast withholden thyself from us?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:5 - Thus saith the Lord, Enter not into their mourning feast, and go not to lament, and mourn not for them: for I have removed my peace from this people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:12 - (LXX 49:12) And I will grant you mercy, and pity you, and will restore you to your land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:26 - And I will defile them by their own decrees, when I pass through upon every one that opens the womb, that I may destroy them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:9 - Now God had brought Daniel into favour and compassion with the chief of the eunuchs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:9 - To thee, the Lord our God, belong compassions and forgivenesses, whereas we have departed from thee;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:18 - Incline thine ear, O my God, and hear; open thine eyes and behold our desolation, and that of thy city on which thy name is called: for we do not bring our pitiful case before thee on the ground of our righteousness, but on the ground of thy manifold compassions, O Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:19 - (LXX 2:21) And I will betroth thee to myself for ever; yea, I will betroth thee to myself in righteousness, and in judgment, and in mercy, and in tender compassions;

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:11 - Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Idumea, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they pursued their brother with the sword, and destroyed the mother upon the earth, and summoned up his anger for a testimony, and kept up his fury to the end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:16 - Therefore thus saith the Lord: I will return to Jerusalem with compassion; and my house shall be rebuilt in her, saith the Lord Almighty, and a measuring line shall yet be stretched out over Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:9 - Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Judge righteous judgment, and deal mercifully and compassionately every one with his brother:
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