Compassion
חֶמְלָהStrong’s H2551chemlah (chem-lah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chemlah is the Hebrew word usually translated “mercy of” and “mercy his”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.”
Meaning
- Mercy, pity, compassion
How it's translated
- in mercy of 1
- and in mercy his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Hebrew dictionary
חֶמְלָה chemlah · compassion
mercy, pity, compassion
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “compassion” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COMPASSION, noun
- A suffering with another; painful sympathy; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration. compassion is a mixed passion, compounded of love and sorrow; at least some portion of love generally attends the pain or regret, or is excited by it.“He being full of compassion forgave their iniquity” Psalms 78:38“His father had compassion and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him” Luke 15:20
All definitions and other forms of “compassion”
COMPASSION, verb transitive
To pity.
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.