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Lexicon :: Strong's H2550 - ḥāmal

Aa
חָמַל
Transliteration
ḥāmal
Pronunciation
khaw-mal'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: TWOT- 676

Strong’s Definitions

חָמַל châmal, khaw-mal'; a primitive root; to commiserate; by implication, to spare:—have compassion, (have) pity, spare.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 41x

The KJV translates Strong's H2550 in the following manner: pity (18x), spare (18x), have compassion (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 41x
The KJV translates Strong's H2550 in the following manner: pity (18x), spare (18x), have compassion (5x).

  1. (Qal) to spare, pity, have compassion on

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָמַל châmal, khaw-mal'; a primitive root; to commiserate; by implication, to spare:—have compassion, (have) pity, spare.
STRONGS H2550: Abbreviations
† חָמַל verb spare (Arabic حَمَلَ; is bear, become responsible; Aramaic Lfmo comportavit, congessit); —
Qal Perfect ח׳ 1 Samuel 15:15 + 3 times; חָמָ֑ל 2 Samuel 12:6; Lamentations 2:17; חָמָ֑לְתָּ Lamentations 2:21; Lamentations 3:43; וְחָמַלְתִּ֫י Malachi 3:17; Imperfect יַחְמֹל Job 16:13 + 6 times; יַחְמוֺל Job 6:10 + 3 times; וַיַּחְמֹל 1 Samuel 15:9 + 3 times; 3rd person feminine singular וַתַּחְמֹל Exodus 2:6; 2nd person masculine singular תַּחְמֹל Deuteronomy 13:9; 1 Samuel 15:3; אֶחְמֹל Ezekiel 8:18; Ezekiel 9:10; אֶחְמוֺל Jeremiah 13:14 + 4 times; וָאֶחְמֹל Ezekiel 36:21; יַחְמֹ֑לוּ Isaiah 9:18; תַּחְמְלוּ Jeremiah 50:14; Jeremiah 51:3; תַּחְמֹ֑לוּ Ezekiel 9:5; Infinitive construct חֻמְלָה Ezekiel 16:5 (Ges§ 45, 1. b); — spare, have compassion, with על Exodus 2:6 (E), 1 Samuel 15:3, 9, 15; 1 Samuel 23:21; 2 Samuel 21:7; 2 Chronicles 36:15, 17; Jeremiah 15:5; Ezekiel 16:5; Ezekiel 36:21; Job 20:13; Zechariah 11:5, 6; Malachi 3:17 (twice in verse); Joel 2:18; Deuteronomy 13:9 (|| חוס followed by על), Jeremiah 21:7 (|| חוס followed by על + רחם), Ezekiel 9:10 (|| חוס followed by על according to Syriac Version Targum Co); followed by אֶלֿ Jeremiah 51:3; Isaiah 9:18; note poetic אֶלחֵֿץ אַלתַּֿחְ׳＝spare no arrow Jeremiah 50:14; followed by Infinitive 2 Samuel 12:4; absolute 2 Samuel 12:6; Isaiah 30:14; Lamentations 2:17, 21, also Lamentations 2:2 where apparently followed by accusative, Lamentations 3:43; Job 6:10; Job 16:13; Job 27:22; Proverbs 6:34; Habakkuk 1:17; || חוס Ezekiel 5:11; Ezekiel 7:4 (strike out Co as doubl. of Ezekiel 7:9), Ezekiel 7:9; Ezekiel 8:18; Ezekiel 9:5; Jeremiah 13:14 (|| אחוס and ארחם).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

2:6; 2:6

Deuteronomy

13:9; 13:9

1 Samuel

15:3; 15:3; 15:9; 15:9; 15:15; 15:15; 23:21

2 Samuel

12:4; 12:6; 12:6; 21:7

2 Chronicles

36:15; 36:17

Job

6:10; 6:10; 16:13; 16:13; 20:13; 27:22

Proverbs

6:34

Isaiah

9:18; 9:18; 30:14

Jeremiah

13:14; 13:14; 15:5; 21:7; 50:14; 50:14; 51:3; 51:3

Lamentations

2:2; 2:17; 2:17; 2:21; 2:21; 3:43; 3:43

Ezekiel

5:11; 7:4; 7:9; 7:9; 8:18; 8:18; 9:5; 9:5; 9:10; 9:10; 16:5; 16:5; 36:21; 36:21

Joel

2:18

Habakkuk

1:17

Zechariah

11:5; 11:6

Malachi

3:17; 3:17

H2550

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Strong's Number H2550 matches the Hebrew חָמַל (ḥāmal),
which occurs 41 times in 40 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:6 - And opening it, she saw the child, and he was crying. And she had pity on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:8 - Do not be guided by him or give attention to him; have no pity on him or mercy, and give him no cover;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3 - Go now and put Amalek to the sword, putting to the curse all they have, without mercy: put to death every man and woman, every child and baby at the breast, every ox and sheep, camel and ass.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:9 - But Saul and the people did not put Agag to death, and they kept the best of the sheep and the oxen and the fat beasts and the lambs, and whatever was good, not desiring to put them to the curse: but everything which was bad and of no use they put to the curse.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:15 - And Saul said, They have taken them from the Amalekites: for the people have kept the best of the sheep and of the oxen as an offering to the Lord your God; all the rest we have given up to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:21 - And Saul said, The Lord's blessing will be yours, for you have had pity on me.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:4 - Now a traveller came to the house of the man of wealth, but he would not take anything from his flock or his herd to make a meal for the traveller who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and made it ready for the man who had come.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:6 - And he will have to give back four times the value of the lamb, because he has done this and because he had no pity.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:7 - But the king did not give up Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because of the Lord's oath made between David and Jonathan, the son of Saul.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:15 - And the Lord, the God of their fathers, sent word to them by his servants, sending early and frequently, because he had pity on his people and on his living-place;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:17 - So he sent against them the king of the Chaldaeans, who put their young men to death with the sword in the house of their holy place, and had no pity for any, young man or virgin, old man or white-haired: God gave them all into his hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:10 - So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:13 - His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:13 - Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:22 - God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:34

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:34 - For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:19 - The land was dark with the wrath of the Lord of armies: the people were like those who take men's flesh for food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:14 - And he will let it be broken as a potter's vessel is broken: it will be smashed to bits without mercy; so that there will not be a bit in which one may take fire from the fireplace, or water from the spring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:14 - I will have them smashed against one another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord: I will have no pity or mercy, I will have no feeling for them to keep me from giving them to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:5 - For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? and who will have sorrow for you? or who will go out of his way to see how you are?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:7 - And after that, says the Lord, I will give up Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his servants and his people, even those in the town who have not come to their end from the disease and the sword and from need of food, into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of their haters, and into the hands of those desiring their death: he will put them to the sword; he will not let anyone get away, he will have no pity or mercy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:14 - Put your armies in position against Babylon on every side, all you bowmen; let loose your arrows at her, not keeping any back: for she has done evil against the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:3 - Against her the bow of the archer is bent, and he puts on his coat of metal: have no mercy on her young men, give all her army up to the curse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:2 - The Lord has given up to destruction all the living-places of Jacob without pity; pulling down in his wrath the strong places of the daughter of Judah, stretching out on the earth the wounded, even her king and her rulers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:17 - The Lord has done that which was his purpose; he has put into force the orders which he gave in the days which are past; pulling down without pity, he has made your hater glad over you, lifting up the horn of those who were against you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:21 - The young men and the old are stretched on the earth in the streets; my virgins and my young men have been put to the sword: you have sent death on them in the day of your wrath, causing death without pity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:43 - Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:11 - For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have made my holy place unclean with all your hated things and all your disgusting ways, you will become disgusting to me; my eye will have no mercy and I will have no pity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:4 - My eye will not have mercy on you, and I will have no pity: but I will send the punishment of your ways on you, and your disgusting works will be among you: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:9 - My eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity: I will send on you the punishment of your ways, and your disgusting works will be among you; and you will see that I am the Lord who gives punishment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:18 - For this reason I will let loose my wrath: my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:5 - And to these he said in my hearing, Go through the town after him using your axes: do not let your eyes have mercy, and have no pity:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:10 - And as for me, my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity, but I will send the punishment of their ways on their heads.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:5 - No eye had pity on you to do any of these things to you or to be kind to you; but you were put out into the open country, because your life was hated at the time of your birth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:21 - But I had pity for my holy name which the children of Israel had made unclean wherever they went.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:18 - Then the Lord had a care for the honour of his land and had pity on his people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:17 - For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:5 - Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:6 - For I will have no more pity for the people of the land, says the Lord; but I will give up everyone into his neighbour's hand and into the hand of his king: and they will make the land waste, and I will not keep them safe from their hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:17 - And they will be mine, says the Lord, in the day when I make them my special property; and I will have mercy on them as a man has mercy on his son who is his servant.
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