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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.
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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 - And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin: If I be bereaved, I am bereaved.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:30 - And Joseph made haste; for his bowels yearned towards his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:25 - Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth beneath, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:17 - And there shall cleave naught of the cursed thing to thy hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn to thy fathers;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:30 - Have they not found; have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colors, a prey of divers colors of needle-work, of divers colors of needle-work on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:14 - And 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 bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:50

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:50 - And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them 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 - And David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but 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 ye turn again to the LORD, your brethren and your children will find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they will return into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:11 - O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thy 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 grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cup-bearer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:19 - Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from 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 thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who distressed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried to thee, thou hearedest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them deliverers, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.

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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 thee: therefore thou leftest them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned and cried to thee, thou hearedest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:31 - Nevertheless, for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:6 - Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy loving kindnesses; for they have been ever of old.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 40:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:11 - Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy loving-kindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 51:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:1 - To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness: according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:16 - Hear me, O LORD; for thy loving-kindness is good: turn to me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 77:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:9 - Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 79:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:8 - O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily succor us: for we are brought very low.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 103:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:4 - Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving-kindness 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 that carried them captives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:77

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:156

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:156 - Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: revive me according to thy judgments.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 145:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 145:9 - The LORD is good to all: and 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 regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:16 - The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 46:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:3 - Hearken to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the birth, which are carried from the womb:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:6 - I was wroth with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and given them into thy hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 54:7

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 63:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:7 - I will mention the loving-kindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness towards the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 63:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:15 - Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies towards me? are they restrained?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:5 - For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even loving-kindness and mercies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 42:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:12 - And I will show mercies to you, that he may have mercy upon 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 mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

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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 the first-born, 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 had brought Daniel into favor and tender love with 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 forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:18 - O my God, incline thy ear, and hear; open thy eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:19 - And I will betroth thee to me for ever; yes, I will betroth thee to me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving-kindness, and in mercies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:11 - Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and 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 did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:16 - Therefore thus saith the LORD; I have returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:9 - Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
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