chus · pity, spare

What it means

chus (חוּס) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pity, spare”.

Have pity, take compassion; spare. "Let your eye not pity" means do not worry about what you leave behind.

How to say it

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

1. To feel for someone and not destroy them.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• pity ×13
• spare ×7
• pitied ×2
• have compassion ×1
• regret ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Deuteronomy×5
• 1 Samuel×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×9
• Joel×1
• Jonah×2

• Genesis 45:20

  Do not let your eye regret your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’”

• Deuteronomy 7:16

  You shall devour all the peoples that YHWH your Elohim is giving you; your eye shall not pity them, and you shall not serve their gods, for it would be a snare to you.

• Deuteronomy 13:8

  you shall not consent to him or listen to him, and your eye shall not pity him, and you shall not spare him or shield him.

• Deuteronomy 19:13

  Your eye shall not pity him, and you shall remove the innocent blood from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

• Deuteronomy 19:21

  And your eye shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

• Deuteronomy 25:12

  then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not pity her.

• 1 Samuel 24:10

  Look, this day your eyes have seen how YHWH gave you today into my hand in the cave; and some said to kill you, but my eye had pity on you, and I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the anointed of YHWH.’

• Nehemiah 13:22

  And I told the Levites that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to sanctify the day of the Sabbath. This too remember for me, my Elohim, and have compassion on me according to the abundance of your loyal love.

• Psalms 72:13

  He will have pity on the poor and the needy, and the souls of the needy he will save.

• Isaiah 13:18

  And their bows will dash to pieces the young men, and on the fruit of the womb they will have no compassion; on children their eye will not have pity.

• Jeremiah 13:14

  And I will dash them one against another, the fathers and the sons together, declares YHWH; I will not show pity, nor spare, nor have compassion that would keep me from destroying them.’”

• Jeremiah 21:7

  And afterward, declares YHWH, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and those who 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 will strike them with the edge of the sword; he will not pity them, and he will not spare, and he will not have compassion.’

• Ezekiel 5:11

  Therefore, as I live, declares Adonai YHWH, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, I too will withdraw, and my eye will not spare, and I too will not show pity.

• Ezekiel 7:4

  And my eye will not spare you, and I will not show pity; for your ways I will lay upon you, and your abominations will be in your midst; and you will know that I am YHWH.”

• Ezekiel 7:9

  And my eye will not spare, and I will not show pity; according to your ways I will lay upon you, and your abominations will be in your midst; and you will know that I, YHWH, am the one who strikes.

• Ezekiel 8:18

  And I too will act in fury; my eye will not spare, and I will not show pity; and they will cry in my ears with a loud voice, and I will not hear them.”

• Ezekiel 9:5

  And to the others he said in my ears, “Pass through the city after him and strike; let your eye not spare, and do not show pity.

• Ezekiel 9:10

  And I too, my eye will not spare, and I will not show pity; their way I will lay on their head.”

• Ezekiel 16:5

  No eye pitied you to do for you one of these things out of compassion for you; but you were thrown out on the face of the field in the loathing of your soul, on the day you were born.

• Ezekiel 20:17

  Yet my eye pitied them so as not to destroy them, and I did not make a total destruction of them in the wilderness.

• Ezekiel 24:14

  I, YHWH, have spoken; it is coming, and I will do it; I will not refrain, and I will not have pity, and I will not relent; according to your ways and according to your deeds they will judge you, declares Adonai YHWH.’”

• Joel 2:17

  Between the porch and the altar let the priests, the ministers of YHWH, weep, and let them say, “Have pity, YHWH, on your people, and do not make your inheritance a reproach, for the nations to mock them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their Elohim?’”

• Jonah 4:10

  And YHWH said, “You had pity on the plant, for which you did not labor and which you did not make grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night.

• Jonah 4:11

  And I, should I not have pity on Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand human beings who do not know how to tell between their right hand and their left, and much livestock?”