TBESH · H2347
חוּס · chus · to pity
(Qal) to pity, have compassion, spare, look upon with compassion
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chus H2347
חוּס (chus) means “to pity” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
חוּס Hebrew · H2347 24 tagged occurrences in 24 verses
Pronunciation guide: khoos Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
a primitive root; properly, to cover, i.e. (figuratively) to compassionate
KJV glosses: pity, regard, spare.
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How translators render H2347
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| with pity | 5 |
| pity | 2 |
| spare | 2 |
| but i spared | 1 |
| care | 1 |
| cared | 1 |
| do not | 1 |
| he will take pity | 1 |
| look on you with pity | 1 |
| look with pity | 1 |
| mercy | 1 |
| one cared enough | 1 |
| show pity | 1 |
| yet i looked on them with pity | 1 |
| you must show her no pity | 1 |
| you must show him no pity | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| shall not spare | 5 |
| shall not pity | 3 |
| spare | 3 |
| spared | 2 |
| and should not i spare | 1 |
| he shall not spare | 1 |
| he shall spare | 1 |
| neither will i spare | 1 |
| nor spare | 1 |
| pitied | 1 |
| pity | 1 |
| regard | 1 |
| shall have no pity | 1 |
| this also and spare | 1 |
| thou hast had pity | 1 |
Verses containing H2347
Page 1 of 1. 24 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 45:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But pay no regard to your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 7:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 13:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
you must not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity, and do not spare him or shield him.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 13.9
- Deuteronomy 19:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You must show him no pity. You are to purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, that it may go well with you.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 19:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 25:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 24:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Behold, this day you have seen with your own eyes that the LORD delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to kill you, but I spared you and said, ‘I will not lift my hand against my lord, since he is the LORD’s anointed.’
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 24.11
- Nehemiah 13:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then I instructed the Levites to purify themselves and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember me for this as well, O my God, and show me mercy according to Your abundant loving devotion.
Read word by word - Psalms 72:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He will take pity on the poor and needy and save the lives of the oppressed.
Read word by word - Isaiah 13:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 13:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will smash them against one another, fathers and sons alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no mercy or pity or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.’”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 21:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.’
Read word by word - Ezekiel 5:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I spare you.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 7:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’
Read word by word - Ezekiel 7:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes the blow.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 8:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”
Read word by word - Ezekiel 9:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And as I listened, He said to the others, “Follow him through the city and start killing; do not show pity or spare anyone!
Read word by word - Ezekiel 9:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But as for Me, I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. I will bring their deeds down upon their own heads.”
Read word by word - Ezekiel 16:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
No one cared enough for you to do even one of these things out of compassion for you. Instead, you were thrown out into the open field, because you were despised on the day of your birth.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 20:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them to an end in the wilderness.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 24:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I, the LORD, have spoken; the time is coming, and I will act. I will not refrain or show pity, nor will I relent. I will judge you according to your ways and deeds,’ declares the Lord GOD.”
Read word by word - Joel 2:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
Read word by word - Jonah 4:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.
Read word by word - Jonah 4:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”
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