To pity
חוּסStrong’s H2347chus
Appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chus is the Hebrew word usually translated “it will look with pity”, “it will look with compassion” and “it looked with compassion”. It appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament.
“Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to pity, have compassion, spare, look upon with compassion
How it's translated
- it will look with pity 6
- it will look with compassion 5
- and it looked with compassion 2
- it look with regret 1
- and have mercy 1
- he will have compassion 1
- i will have mercy 1
- he will have mercy 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 9
- Deuteronomy 5
- Jeremiah 2
- Jonah 2
- Genesis 1
- 1 Samuel 1
10 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 7:16And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
- Deuteronomy 13:8Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
- Deuteronomy 19:13Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
- Deuteronomy 19:21And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
- Deuteronomy 25:12Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.
- 1 Samuel 24:10Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD’s anointed.
Hebrew dictionary
חוּס chus · to pity
(Qal) to pity, have compassion, spare, look upon with compassion
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pity” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PITY, noun
[The Latin, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese languages unite pity and piety in the same word, and the word may be from the root of compassion; Latin patior, to suffer.]
- The feeling or suffering of one person, excited by the distresses of another; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion or fellow-suffering.“He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth to the Lord” Proverbs 19:17
- The ground or subject of pity; cause of grief; thing to be regretted.
All definitions and other forms of “pity”
PIT'Y, verb transitive
To feel pain or grief for one in distress; to have sympathy for; to compassionate; to have tender feelings for one, excited by his unhappiness.
- “Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him” Psalms 103:13
PIT'Y, verb intransitive
To be compassionate; to exercise pity
- “I will not pity nor spare, nor have mercy” Jeremiah 13:14
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.