רַחְמָנִי
rachmânîy · H7362 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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compassionate
State in which humans feel compassion for others, caused by affection for that person and/or the lack of well-being of that person; this feeling is usually translated into action
ExamplesLamentations 4:10 The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Due to the destruction of the daughter of my people.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- חַנּוּן channûwn · H2587 · generous, merciful
- Both words denote qualities of showing mercy and compassion, overlapping in the sense of divine or human compassion.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Merciful002001002019
- The word means pitiful or compassionate, directly illustrated, with bitter irony, by "the hands of compassionate women" reduced to boiling their own children during the siege's horror (Lamentations 4:10).
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7362. rachamani [רַחֲמָנִי] adjective id.; — plural feminine רַחֲמָנִיּוֺת נָשִׁים Lam…
[רַחֲמָנִי] adjective id.; — plural feminine רַחֲמָנִיּוֺת נָשִׁים Lam 4:10 compassionate women.
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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