(Qal) to spare, pity, have compassion on
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H2550 — חָמַל
cha.mal · to spare · Hebrew/Aramaic
31 tagged verse occurrences
Exodus 2:6 · וַתַּחְמֹ֣לShe opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”Deuteronomy 13:8 · תַחְמֹ֥לyou shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him:1 Samuel 15:3 · תַחְמֹ֖לNow go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”1 Samuel 15:9 · וַיַּחְמֹל֩But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the cattle, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and wouldn’t utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.1 Samuel 15:15 · חָמַ֤לSaul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest.”1 Samuel 23:21 · חֲמַלְתֶּ֖םSaul said, “You are blessed by Yahweh; for you have had compassion on me.2 Samuel 12:4 · וַיַּחְמֹ֗לA traveler came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man who had come to him.”2 Samuel 12:6 · חָמָֽל׃He shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!”2 Samuel 21:7 · וַיַּחְמֹ֣לBut the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.2 Chronicles 36:15 · חָמַ֥לYahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:2 Chronicles 36:17 · חָמַ֛לTherefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed: he gave them all into his hand.Job 6:10 · יַחְמ֑וֹלBe it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.Job 16:13 · יַחְמ֑וֹלHis archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.Job 20:13 · יַחְמֹ֣לthough he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;Job 27:22 · יַחְמֹ֑לFor it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.Proverbs 6:34 · יַ֝חְמ֗וֹלFor jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won’t spare in the day of vengeance.Isaiah 9:19 · יַחְמֹֽלוּ׃Through the wrath of Yahweh of Armies, the land is burnt up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.Isaiah 30:14 · יַחְמֹ֑לHe will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”Jeremiah 13:14 · אֶחְמ֧וֹלI will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says Yahweh: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.Jeremiah 15:5 · יַחְמֹ֤לFor who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? or who will bemoan you? or who will turn aside to ask of your welfare?Jeremiah 21:7 · יַחְמֹ֖לAfterward, says Yahweh, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life: and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.Jeremiah 50:14 · תַּחְמְל֖וּSet yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has sinned against Yahweh.Jeremiah 51:3 · תַּחְמְלוּ֙Against him who bends let the archer bend his bow, and against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail: and don’t spare her young men; utterly destroy all her army.Lamentations 2:2 · חָמַ֗לThe Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and its princes.Lamentations 2:17 · חָמָ֑לYahweh has done that which he purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; He has thrown down, and has not pitied: He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.Lamentations 2:21 · חָמָֽלְתָּ׃ סThe youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: You have killed them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, and not pitied.Lamentations 3:43 · חָמָֽלְתָּ׃You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied.Habakkuk 1:17 · יַחְמֽוֹל׃ סWill he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?Zechariah 11:5 · יַחְמ֖וֹלTheir buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.Zechariah 11:6 · אֶחְמ֥וֹלFor I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,” says Yahweh; “but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor’s hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.”Malachi 3:17 · וְחָמַלְתִּ֣י · יַחְמֹ֣לThey shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.