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# רַחוּם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7349

**compassionate** — used 13 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

compassionate [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7349/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רַחוּם: adj. compassionate [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7349/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. compassionate; usually of God: אֵל רַחוּם Dt 4:31, ר׳ וְחַנּוּן Ex 34:6 (J) = ψ 86:15; 103:8; later חַנּוּן ור׳ 2 Ch 30:9; Ne 9:17, 31; Jo 2:13; Jon 4:2 ψ 111:4; 145:8; והוא ר׳ 78:38. Once of man ψ 112:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: compassionate (11); \[is\] compassionate (1); \[was\] compassionate (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 103:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.103.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.103.8/#tree)

רַח֣וּם וְחַנּ֣וּן יְהוָ֑ה אֶ֖רֶךְ אַפַּ֣יִם וְרַב־חָֽסֶד׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].compassionate and gracious Yahweh long of.anger(s) and great of.covenant.loyalty

*JPS 1917:* The LORD is full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

[Psalms 111:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.111.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.111.4/#tree)

זֵ֣כֶר עָ֭שָׂה לְנִפְלְאֹתָ֑יו חַנּ֖וּן וְרַח֣וּם יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* remembrance he.has.appointed of wonders his \[is\].gracious and compassionate Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* He hath made a memorial for His wonderful works; the LORD is gracious and full of compassion.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7349.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7349/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).