Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H2550

חָמַל

cha.mal · “to spare”

Used 41 times across 15 books

Definition

(Qal) to spare, pity, have compassion on

Where it appears

Exodus

1

Deuteronomy

1

1 Samuel

4

2 Samuel

3

2 Chronicles

2

Job

4

Proverbs

1

Isaiah

2

Jeremiah

5

Lamentations

4

Ezekiel

8

Joel

1

Habakkuk

1

Zechariah

2

Malachi

2

In the text

Exodus 2:6And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children.Deuteronomy 13:9But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.1 Samuel 15:3Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.1 Samuel 15:9But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.1 Samuel 15:15And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.1 Samuel 23:21And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the Lord; for ye have compassion on me.2 Samuel 12:4And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.2 Samuel 12:6And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.2 Samuel 21:7But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the Lord’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.2 Chronicles 36:15And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:

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