King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H7356
Transliteration: racham
Phonetic Spelling: (rakh'-am)
Part of Speech: noun masculine; feminine; noun masculine; absolute plural intensive
Short Definition: compassion
Meaning: compassion, the womb, a maiden
Word Summary
racham: compassion
Original Word: רַחַםTransliteration: racham
Phonetic Spelling: (rakh'-am)
Part of Speech: noun masculine; feminine; noun masculine; absolute plural intensive
Short Definition: compassion
Meaning: compassion, the womb, a maiden
Strong's Concordance
tender love, great, tender mercy, pity, wombFrom racham; compassion (in the plural); by extension, the womb (as cherishing the fetus); by implication, a maiden -- bowels, compassion, damsel, tender love, (great, tender) mercy, pity, womb.
see HEBREW racham
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H7356. racham
רַ֫הַם רֶ֫חֶם, noun masculineHosea 9:14 womb (feminine Jeremiah 20:17, unless הֲרַת a noun, compare AlbrZAW xvi.81 SS); — absolute ׳ר Genesis 20:18 +, רַ֫חַם Judges 5:30, רָ֑חֶם Jeremiah 20:17 +, רָ֑חַם Genesis 49:25 +; construct רֶ֫חֶם Numbers 12:12; Job 3:11; suffix רַחְמָהּ Genesis 29:31 +, רַחְמָהֿ Jeremiah 20:17 (Ges§ 91e; >f. absolute Köii. 1. 159); dual רַחֲמָתַיִם Judges 5:30; —
1 womb, Genesis 49:25 (J) Jeremiah 20:17; Job 24:20; מֵרחם i.e. from birth Jeremiah 20:17; Psalm 22:11; 58:4; Job 3:11 (מִנִּי), Isaiah 46:3, figurative Psalm 110:3; בָּרֶחֶם Job 31:15; מֵר ׳יצא go forth from womb in birth Jeremiah 1:5; 20:18; Job 38:8, compare 10:18; ׳מֵר אֵם Numbers 12:12 (E); ר ׳פתח open the womb, in order to childbirth Genesis 29:31; 30:22 (JE); רחם כָּלמֶּֿטֶר all that first opens womb (of men and animals) Exodus 13:12, 15; 34:19 (J) Numbers 18:15 (P) Ezekiel 20:26; ר ׳פטר Numbers 3:12 (P), ר כל ׳מִּטְרַת 8:16; ר כל ׳פטר Exodus 13:2 (P); on the other hand, ׳ר מַשִׁכִּיל Hosea 9:14 miscarrying womb; ר ׳עֹצֶר Proverbs 30:16 restraint (i.e. barrenness) of womb (so Psalm 107:36 PerlesAnal. 85); ר בְּעַד ׳עָצַר (of God) Genesis 20:18 (E); ׳ר סָגַר (בְּעַד) 1 Samuel 1:5-6, preventing childbirth.
2 womb-man, woman-slave: רַחֲמָתַיִם רַחַם Judges 5:30 a woman, two women.
רַחֲמִים noun masculine2 Samuel 24:14
absolute plural intensive compassion (according to many denominative from רֶחֶם, originally brotherhood, brotherly feeling, of those born from same womb, see NöZMG xl (1886), 151 (yet see 152) WeGGN 1893, 475 Gerber126, or motherly feeling Köii. 1, 34); — absolute ׳ר Genesis 43:14 +; construct רַחֲמֵי Proverbs 12:10; suffix רַחֲמָיו Lamentations 3:22 (Baer Gi; van d. H. Qr, Kt רחמו), 2 Samuel 24:14 Qr (> Kt רחמו), etc.; —
1 compassion: usually of God Isaiah 63:7, 15; Psalm 77:10; 79:8; 119:77; Zechariah 1:16; Daniel 9:9; Nehemiah 9:28; with רבים 2 Samuel 24:14 = 1 Chronicles 21:13; Nehemiah 9:19, 27, 31; Psalm 119:156; Daniel 9:18; גדולים Isaiah 54:7; "" חסד Psalm 40:12; 103:4; Hosea 2:21; Jeremiah 16:5; חסדים Psalm 25:6; רחמיךָ כרֹב 51:3; 69:17; with על of thing 145:9; ר ׳נתן ל Deuteronomy 13:18; Jeremiah 42:12; ר כלו ׳לא Lamentations 3:22.
2 of man, Amos 1:11; Proverbs 12:10; ר ׳עשׂה Zechariah 7:9; לפ ׳נָתַן ׳ר לִפְנֵי Genesis 43:14 (R); ׳פ ׳לר לִפְנֵי נתן 1 Kings 8:50; Nehemiah 1:11; Daniel 1:9; Psalm 106:46, compare 2 Chronicles 30:9; ר ׳שׂם ל Isaiah 47:6; ר ׳נִכְמְרוּ אל Genesis 43:30 (J), with על 2 Kings 3:26.