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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.
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 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 God Almighty[fn] grant you mercy before the man, and may he send back your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, 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 - Then Joseph hurried out, for his compassion grew warm for his brother, and he sought a place to weep. And he entered his chamber and wept there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:25 - by the God of your father who will help you,
by the Almighty[fn] who will bless you
with blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep that crouches beneath,
blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:17 - None of the devoted things shall stick 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 swore to your fathers,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:30 - ‘Have they not found and divided the spoil?—
A womb or two for every man;
spoil of dyed materials for Sisera,
spoil of dyed materials embroidered,
two pieces of dyed work embroidered for the neck as spoil?’

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:14 - Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for his mercy is great; but 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 the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because her heart yearned for her son, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means put him to death.” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him.”

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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 that they have committed against you, and grant them compassion in the sight of 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 - Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let me fall into the hand of the LORD, for his mercy is very great, but do not let me fall into the hand of man.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:9 - For if you return to the LORD, your brothers and your children will find compassion with their captors and return to 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 - O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cupbearer to the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:19 - you in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud to lead them in the way did not depart from them by day, nor the pillar of fire by night to light for them the way by which they should go.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:27 - Therefore you gave them into the hand of their enemies, who made them suffer. And in the time of their suffering they cried out to you and you heard them from heaven, and according to your great mercies you gave them saviors who saved them from 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 you, and you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them. Yet when they turned and cried to you, you heard from heaven, and many times you delivered them according to your mercies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:31 - Nevertheless, in your great mercies you did not make an end of them or 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 - Remember your mercy, O LORD, and your steadfast love,
for they have been from of old.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 40:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:11 - As for you, O LORD, you will not restrain
your mercy from me;
your steadfast love and your faithfulness will
ever preserve me!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 51:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:1 - To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
Have mercy on me,[fn] O God,
according to your steadfast love;
according to your abundant mercy
blot out my transgressions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:16 - Answer me, O LORD, for your steadfast love is good;
according to your abundant mercy, 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 shut up his compassion?” Selah

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 79:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:8 - Do not remember against us our former iniquities;[fn]
let your compassion come speedily to meet us,
for we are brought very low.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 103:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:4 - who redeems your life from the pit,
who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:46

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:46 - He caused them to be pitied
by all those who held them captive.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:77

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:77 - Let your mercy 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 is your mercy, O LORD;
give me life according to your rules.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 145:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 145:9 - The LORD is good to all,
and his mercy is over all that he has made.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:10 - Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast,
but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:16 - Sheol, the barren womb,
the land never satisfied with water,
and the fire that never says, “Enough.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 46:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:3 - “Listen to me, O house of Jacob,
all the remnant of the house of Israel,
who have been borne by me from before your birth,
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 heritage;
I gave them into your hand;
you showed them no mercy;
on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 54:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:7 - For a brief moment I deserted you,
but with great compassion I will gather you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 63:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:7 - I will recount the steadfast love of the LORD,
the praises of the LORD,
according to all that the LORD has granted us,
and the great goodness to the house of Israel
that he has granted them according to his compassion,
according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 63:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:15 - Look down from heaven and see,
from your holy and beautiful[fn] habitation.
Where are your zeal and your might?
The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion
are held back from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:5 - “For thus says the LORD: Do not enter the house of mourning, or go to lament or grieve for them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, my steadfast love and mercy, declares the LORD.

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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 let you remain in your own land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:22 - The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases;[fn]
his mercies never come to an end;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:26 - and I defiled them through their very gifts in their offering up all their firstborn, that I might devastate them. I did it that they might know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:9 - And God gave Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the chief of the eunuchs,

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:9

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:18 - O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:19 - And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:11 - Thus says the LORD:
“For three transgressions of Edom,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because he pursued his brother with the sword
and cast off all pity,
and his anger tore perpetually,
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 Jerusalem with mercy; my house shall be built in it, declares the LORD of hosts, and the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:9 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,
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