חֶמְלָה
chemla · compassion
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2551 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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chemla (חֶמְלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “compassion”.
Pity that moves one to rescue.
How to say it
chem·la
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Tender feeling that moves to rescue.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- compassion ×1
- pity ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 19:16
But he lingered; so the men seized his hand, his wife’s hand, and the hand of his two daughters, because of YHWH’s compassion for him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.
- Isaiah 63:9
In all their distress there was distress to him, and the angel of his face saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.