חָמַל

When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew children.”

Exodus 2:6

• וַתַּחְמֹ֣לvatachmolHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she had compassion

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

• תַחְמֹ֥לtachmolverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will spare

Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

1 Samuel 15:3

• תַחְמֹ֖לtachmolverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you must have compassion

Saul and his troops spared Agag, along with the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs, and the best of everything else. They were unwilling to destroy them, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.

1 Samuel 15:9

• וַיַּחְמֹל֩vaiyachmolHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he had compassion

Saul answered, “The troops brought them from the Amalekites; they spared the best sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD your God, but the rest we devoted to destruction.”

1 Samuel 15:15

• חָמַ֤לchamalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it had compassion

“May you be blessed by the LORD,” replied Saul, “for you have had compassion on me.

1 Samuel 23:21

• חֲמַלְתֶּ֖םchamaltemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have had compassion

Now a traveler came to the rich man, who refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for his guest.”

2 Samuel 12:4

• וַיַּחְמֹ֗לvaiyachmolHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he spared

Because he has done this thing and has shown no pity, he must pay for the lamb four times over.”

2 Samuel 12:6

• חָמָֽל׃chamalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he showed pity

Now the king spared Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath before the LORD between David and Jonathan son of Saul.

2 Samuel 21:7

• וַיַּחְמֹ֣לvaiyachmolHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he had compassion

Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.

2 Chronicles 36:15

• חָמַ֥לchamalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had compassion

So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,

2 Chronicles 36:17

• חָמַ֛לchamalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had compassion

It still brings me comfort, and joy through unrelenting pain, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

Job 6:10

• יַחְמ֑וֹלyachmolverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it relents

His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.

Job 16:13

• יַחְמ֑וֹלyachmolverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has compassion

though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,

Job 20:13

• יַחְמֹ֣לyachmolverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he spares

It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.

Job 27:22

• יַחְמֹ֑לyachmolverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will show pity

For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.

Proverbs 6:34

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

By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.

Isaiah 9:19

• יַחְמֹֽלוּ׃yachmoluverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they spared

It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”

Isaiah 30:14

• יַחְמֹ֑לyachmolverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: anyone will spare

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

• אֶחְמ֧וֹלʾechmolverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will show pity

Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?

Jeremiah 15:5

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

‘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

• יַחְמֹ֖לyachmolverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will show pity

Line up in formation around Babylon, all you who draw the bow! Shoot at her! Spare no arrows! For she has sinned against the LORD.

Jeremiah 50:14

• תַּחְמְל֖וּtachmeluverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you spare

Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!

Jeremiah 51:3

• תַּחְמְלוּ֙tachmeluverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you spare

Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.

Lamentations 2:2

• חָמַ֗לchamalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has spared

The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.

Lamentations 2:17

• חָמָ֑לchamalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has spared

Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.

Lamentations 2:21

• חָמָֽלְתָּ׃ סchamaltaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have spared

You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.

Lamentations 3:43

• חָמָֽלְתָּ׃chamaltaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have spared

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

• אֶחְמֽוֹל׃ʾechmolverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will show pity

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

• אֶחְמ֑וֹלʾechmolverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will show pity

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

• אֶחְמ֑וֹלʾechmolverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will show pity

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

• אֶחְמֹ֑לʾechmolverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will show pity

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

• תַּחְמֹֽלוּ׃tachmoluverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you show pity

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

• אֶחְמֹ֑לʾechmolverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will show pity

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

• לְחֻמְלָ֣הlechumlahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: for compassion

But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they had gone.

Ezekiel 36:21

• וָאֶחְמֹ֖לvaechmolHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I showed pity

Then the LORD became jealous for His land, and He spared His people.

Joel 2:18

• וַיַּחְמֹ֖לvaiyachmolHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he had compassion

Will he, therefore, empty his net and continue to slay nations without mercy?

Habakkuk 1:17

• יַחְמֽוֹל׃ סyachmolverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will he spare

whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them.

Zechariah 11:5

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

For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the LORD, but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king, who will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from their hands.”

Zechariah 11:6

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

“They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.

Malachi 3:17

• וְחָמַלְתִּ֣יvechamaltiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will have compassion
• יַחְמֹ֣לyachmolverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has compassion