רַחוּם
rachum · merciful
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7349 · appears 13 times in the Bible
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rachum (רַחוּם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “merciful”.
Who feels tenderness and compassion. Said almost always of God.
How to say it
ra·chum
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
- Full of tenderness and compassion, like YHWH.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Exodus 34:6
And YHWH passed by before him and proclaimed, “YHWH, YHWH, an El merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in loyal love and faithfulness,
- Deuteronomy 4:31
For a merciful El is YHWH your Elohim; he will not fail you or destroy you or forget the covenant of your fathers that he swore to them.
- 2 Chronicles 30:9
For when you return to YHWH, your brothers and your sons will find mercy before their captors and return to this land; for YHWH your Elohim is gracious and merciful, and he will not turn away his face from you if you return to him.”
- Nehemiah 9:17
They refused to listen, and did not remember your wonders that you had done with them; and they hardened their neck and appointed a head to return to their servitude in their rebellion. But you are an Eloah of pardons, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, and you did not abandon them.
- Nehemiah 9:31
Yet in your many mercies you did not make an end of them nor abandon them, for a gracious and merciful El are you.
- Psalms 78:38
But he, merciful, makes expiation for iniquity and does not destroy; and many times he turned back his anger, and did not stir up all his fury.
- Psalms 86:15
But you, Adonai, are an El merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in loyal love and faithfulness.
- Psalms 103:8
Merciful and gracious is YHWH, slow to anger and abounding in loyal love.
- Psalms 111:4
He has made a remembrance of his wonders; gracious and merciful is YHWH.
- Psalms 112:4
Light rises in the darkness for the upright; gracious and merciful and righteous.
- Psalms 145:8
Gracious and merciful is YHWH, slow to anger and great in loyal love.
- Joel 2:13
And tear your heart, and not your garments, and return to YHWH your Elohim; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in loyal love, and relenting over the evil.
- Jonah 4:2
And he prayed to YHWH and said, “I beg you, YHWH, was this not my word while I was still in my land? That is why I hurried to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are El, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, and one who relents concerning evil.