Compassionate

1. Compassionatealways of God with one possible exception

• and compassionate 8
• compassionate 5

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Psalms 6
• Nehemiah 2
• Exodus 1
• Deuteronomy 1
• 2 Chronicles 1
• Joel 1

7 books in all.

• Compassionate (rachmani)
• Compassionate (oiktirmōn)
• Compassionate (eusplagchnos)
• Very compassionate (polusplagchnos)

• Deuteronomy 4:31(For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
• 2 Chronicles 30:9For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.
• Nehemiah 9:17And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.
• Nehemiah 9:31Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
• Psalms 78:38But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
• Psalms 86:15But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

How the English word “compassionate” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.