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Hebrew verb · H2347

חוּס

chuskhoos

to pity

24 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: chûwç

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2347is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 10 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 19
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2347

properly, to cover, i.e. (figuratively) to compassionate

The King James renders it: pity, regard, spare.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

chus is rendered "to pity". It stands 24 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.

  • Nine of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 45:20But pay no regard to your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’”
  • The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.

The first use

But pay no regard to your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’”

Genesis 45:20תָּחֹ֖ס

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Nine of the word's twenty-four uses are in Ezekiel.

The other 29 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • it will look with pity6
  • it will look with compassion5
  • and it looked with compassion2
  • and have mercy1
  • have compassion1
  • he will have compassion1
  • he will have mercy1
  • I will have compassion1
  • I will have mercy1
  • it look with regret1
  • it looked with compassion1
  • let it look with compassion1

and 2 more, 24 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

All 24, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

19 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • תָח֥וֹס5
  • תָח֖וֹס2
  • אָח֛וּס1
  • אָח֖וּס1
  • אָח֔וּס1
  • וְח֥וּסָה1
  • וַתָּ֣חָס1
  • וַתָּ֧חָס1
  • ח֧וּסָה1
  • חָ֨סָה1
  • חַ֙סְתָּ֙1
  • יָח֣וּס1

and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular11HVqi3fs
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular3HVqi1cs
  • Hc/Vqw3fs2Hc/Vqw3fs
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqi3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person feminine singular2HVqj3fs
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic he1HC/Vqv2ms/Sh
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqp2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqp3fs
  • verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic he1HVqv2ms/Sh

Genesis

one use
  • But pay no regard to your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’”

    Genesis 45:20

    • תָּחֹ֖סtachosverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it look with regret

Deuteronomy

five uses
  • You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

    Deuteronomy 7:16

    • תָחֹ֥סtachosverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will look with pity
  • you must not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity, and do not spare him or shield him.

    Deuteronomy 13:8

    • תָח֤וֹסtachosverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will look with pity
  • You must show him no pity. You are to purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, that it may go well with you.

    Deuteronomy 19:13

    • תָח֥וֹסtachosverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will look with pity
  • You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.

    Deuteronomy 19:21

    • תָח֖וֹסtachosverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will look with pity
  • you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity.

    Deuteronomy 25:12

    • תָח֖וֹסtachosverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will look with pity

1 Samuel

one use
  • Behold, this day you have seen with your own eyes that the LORD delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to kill you, but I spared you and said, ‘I will not lift my hand against my lord, since he is the LORD’s anointed.’

    1 Samuel 24:10

    • וַתָּ֣חָסvatachosHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it looked with compassion

Nehemiah

one use
  • Then I instructed the Levites to purify themselves and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember me for this as well, O my God, and show me mercy according to Your abundant loving devotion.

    Nehemiah 13:22

    • וְח֥וּסָהvechusahconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic hetagged: and have mercy

Psalms

one use
  • He will take pity on the poor and needy and save the lives of the oppressed.

    Psalms 72:13

    • יָ֭חֹסyachosverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will have compassion

Isaiah

one use
  • Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children.

    Isaiah 13:18

    • תָח֥וּסtachusverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will look with pity

Jeremiah

two uses
  • I will smash them against one another, fathers and sons alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no mercy or pity or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.’”

    Jeremiah 13:14

    • אָח֛וּסʾachusverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will have mercy
  • ‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.’

    Jeremiah 21:7

    • יָח֣וּסyachusverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will have mercy

Ezekiel

nine uses
  • Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I spare you.

    Ezekiel 5:11

    • תָח֣וֹסtachosverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will look with compassion
  • I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’

    Ezekiel 7:4

    • תָח֥וֹסtachosverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will look with compassion
  • I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes the blow.

    Ezekiel 7:9

    • תָח֥וֹסtachosverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will look with compassion
  • Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”

    Ezekiel 8:18

    • תָח֥וֹסtachosverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will look with compassion
  • And as I listened, He said to the others, “Follow him through the city and start killing; do not show pity or spare anyone!

    Ezekiel 9:5

    • תָּחֹ֥סtachosverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: let it look with compassion
  • But as for Me, I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. I will bring their deeds down upon their own heads.”

    Ezekiel 9:10

    • תָח֥וֹסtachosverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will look with compassion
  • No one cared enough for you to do even one of these things out of compassion for you. Instead, you were thrown out into the open field, because you were despised on the day of your birth.

    Ezekiel 16:5

    • חָ֨סָהchasahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it looked with compassion
  • Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them to an end in the wilderness.

    Ezekiel 20:17

    • וַתָּ֧חָסvatachosHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it looked with compassion
  • I, the LORD, have spoken; the time is coming, and I will act. I will not refrain or show pity, nor will I relent. I will judge you according to your ways and deeds,’ declares the Lord GOD.”

    Ezekiel 24:14

    • אָח֖וּסʾachusverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will have compassion

Joel

one use
  • Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

    Joel 2:17

    • ח֧וּסָהchusahverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic hetagged: have compassion

Jonah

two uses
  • But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.

    Jonah 4:10

    • חַ֙סְתָּ֙chastaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you had compassion
  • So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”

    Jonah 4:11

    • אָח֔וּסʾachusverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: will I have compassion

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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