חֶמְלָה
chemlâh · H2551 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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compassion, mercy
Process by which deities experience an emotion of having tender feelings towards someone, resulting in unwillingness to see that person come to harm
ExamplesGenesis 19:16 But he hesitated. So the men grasped his hand and the hand of his wife and the hands of his two daughters, because the compassion of the LORD was upon him; and they brought him out and put him outside the city.
Isaiah 63:9 In all their distress He was distressed, And the angel of His presence saved them; In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them, And He lifted them and carried them all the days of old.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 1
- הוּhis 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 3
- לto/for 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- רַחַם racham · H7356 · compassion, mercy
- Both words denote emotional dispositions of mercy, compassion, or pity, affective responses toward those in need.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Love002001002018
- The word denotes a compassionate disposition, sharing the sense of pity carried by the related verb for having compassion on another.
- Merciful002001002019
- The word denotes mercy or pity shown toward someone in a vulnerable position, matching the related verb's sense of sparing out of compassion.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2551. chemlah [חֶמְלָה] noun feminine compassion, mercy, of ׳י (strictly Infinitive form…
[חֶמְלָה] noun feminine compassion, mercy, of ׳י (strictly Infinitive form from חמל, see Ges§ 45, 1 b) — construct י ׳בְּחֶמְלַת עָלָיו Gen 19:16 (J), גְאָלָם וּבְחֶמְלָתוֺ בְּאַהֲבָתוֺ Isa 63:9.
חֻמְלָה see חמל Infinitive above
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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