King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H2550
Transliteration: chamal
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-mal')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to spare
Meaning: to commiserate, to spare
Word Summary
chamal: to spare
Original Word: חָמַלTransliteration: 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
חָמַל verb spare (Arabic ; is bear, become responsible; Aramaic comportavit, congessit); —
Qal Perfect ׳ח 1 Samuel 15:15 3t.; חָמָ֑ל 2 Samuel 12:6; Lamentations 2:17; חָמָ֑לְתָּ 2:21; 3:43; וְחָמַלְתִּ֫י Malachi 3:17; Imperfect יַחְמֹל Job 16:13 6t.; יַחְמוֺל 6:10 3t.; וַיַּחְמֹל 1 Samuel 15:9 3t.; 3 feminine singular וַתַּחְמֹל Exodus 2:6; 2masculine singular תַּחְמֹל Deuteronomy 13:9; 1 Samuel 15:3; אֶחְמֹל Ezekiel 8:18; 9:10; אֶחְמוֺל Jeremiah 13:14 4t.; וָאֶחְמֹל Ezekiel 36:21; יַחְמֹ֑לוּ Isaiah 9:18; תַּחְמְלוּ Jeremiah 50:14; 51:3; תַּחְמֹ֑לוּ Ezekiel 9:5; Infinitive construct חֻמְלָה 16:5 (Ges§ 45, 1. b); — spare, have compassion, with על Exodus 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 אֶלֿ Jeremiah 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; "" חוס Ezekiel 5:11; 7:4 (strike out Co as doubl. of 7:9), 7:9; 8:18; 9:5; Jeremiah 13:14 ("" אחוס and ארחם).