STRONGS NUMBER H2550


Word Summary
chamal: to spare
Original Word: חָמַל
Transliteration: chamal
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-mal')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to spare
Meaning: to commiserate, to spare
Strong's Concordance
have compassion, have pity, spare

A primitive root; to commiserate; by implication, to spare -- have compassion, (have) pity, spare.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2550. chamal

חָמַלverb spare (Arabic ; is bear, become responsible; Aramaic comportavit, congessit); —

Qal Perfect ׳ח1 Samuel 15:15 3t.; חָמָ֑ל2 Samuel 12:6; Lamentations 2:17; חָמָ֑לְתָּ2:21; 3:43; וְחָמַלְתִּ֫יMalachi 3:17; Imperfect יַחְמֹלJob 16:13 6t.; יַחְמוֺל6:10 3t.; וַיַּחְמֹל1 Samuel 15:9 3t.; 3 feminine singular וַתַּחְמֹלExodus 2:6; 2masculine singular תַּחְמֹלDeuteronomy 13:9; 1 Samuel 15:3; אֶחְמֹלEzekiel 8:18; 9:10; אֶחְמוֺלJeremiah 13:14 4t.; וָאֶחְמֹלEzekiel 36:21; יַחְמֹ֑לוּIsaiah 9:18; תַּחְמְלוּJeremiah 50:14; 51:3; תַּחְמֹ֑לוּEzekiel 9:5; Infinitive construct חֻמְלָה16:5 (Ges§ 45, 1. b); — spare, have compassion, with עלExodus 2:6 (E), 1 Samuel 15:3, 9, 15; 23:21; 2 Samuel 21:7; 2 Chronicles 36:15, 17; Jeremiah 15:5; Ezekiel 16:5; 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 על‎according to ᵑ7 ᵑ6‎ Co); followed by אֶלֿJeremiah 51:3; Isaiah 9:18; note poetic ׳אַלתַּֿחְ אֶלחֵֿץ‎ = spare no arrow Jeremiah 50:14; followed by Infinitive 2 Samuel 12:4; absolute 12:6; Isaiah 30:14; Lamentations 2:17, 21, also 2:2 where apparently followed by accusative, 3:43; Job 6:10; 16:13; 27:22; Proverbs 6:34; Habakkuk 1:17; "" חוסEzekiel 5:11; 7:4 (strike out Co as doubl. of 7:9), 7:9; 8:18; 9:5; Jeremiah 13:14 ("" אחוס‎ and ארחם‎).