TBESH · H2550
חָמַל · cha.mal · to spare
(Qal) to spare, pity, have compassion on
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cha.mal H2550
חָמַל (cha.mal) means “to spare” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
חָמַל Hebrew · H2550 41 tagged occurrences in 40 verses
Pronunciation guide: khaw-mal' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
a primitive root; to commiserate; by implication, to spare
KJV glosses: have compassion, (have) pity, spare.
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How translators render H2550
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 |
|---|---|
| mercy | 5 |
| pity | 4 |
| spare | 4 |
| compassion | 2 |
| spared | 2 |
| will i spare them | 2 |
| will i spare you | 2 |
| and he spared | 1 |
| and i will spare | 1 |
| but i had concern | 1 |
| even spares | 1 |
| have compassion | 1 |
| he had compassion | 1 |
| or spare anyone | 1 |
| out of compassion | 1 |
| show pity | 1 |
| so she had compassion | 1 |
| spare you | 1 |
| spares | 1 |
| sparing | 1 |
| they spared | 1 |
| though he cannot bear | 1 |
| will have pity | 1 |
| you have had compassion | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| neither will i have pity | 3 |
| spared | 3 |
| and hath not pitied | 2 |
| all that they have and spare | 1 |
| and doth not spare | 1 |
| and had no compassion | 1 |
| and he spared | 1 |
| and i will spare | 1 |
| and not spare | 1 |
| and pity | 1 |
| and she had compassion | 1 |
| and spare | 1 |
| at her spare | 1 |
| because he had compassion | 1 |
| but i had pity | 1 |
| for i will no more pity | 1 |
| for who shall have pity | 1 |
| for ye have compassion | 1 |
| he had no pity | 1 |
| he shall not spare | 1 |
| he spare | 1 |
| him neither shalt thou spare | 1 |
| i will not pity | 1 |
| let him not spare | 1 |
| neither have ye pity | 1 |
| neither will i have any pity | 1 |
| not pitied | 1 |
| of these unto thee to have compassion | 1 |
| pity | 1 |
| shall spare | 1 |
| spareth | 1 |
| thee neither will i have pity | 1 |
| them neither have pity | 1 |
| therefore he will not spare | 1 |
| thou hast not pitied | 1 |
| upon him and not spare | 1 |
Verses containing H2550
Page 1 of 1. 40 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Exodus 2:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew children.”
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
- 1 Samuel 15:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 15:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Saul and his troops spared Agag, along with the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs, and the best of everything else. They were unwilling to devote them to destruction, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 15:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Saul answered, “The troops brought them from the Amalekites; they spared the best sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD your God, but the rest we devoted to destruction.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 23:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“May you be blessed by the LORD,” replied Saul, “for you have had compassion on me.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 12:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now a traveler came to the rich man, who refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for his guest.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 12:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Because he has done this thing and has shown no pity, he must pay for the lamb four times over.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 21:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the king spared Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath before the LORD between David and Jonathan son of Saul.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 36:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 36:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,
Read word by word - Job 6:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
It still brings me comfort, and joy through unrelenting pain, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
Read word by word - Job 16:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
Read word by word - Job 20:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,
Read word by word - Job 27:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.
Read word by word - Proverbs 6:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.
Read word by word - Isaiah 9:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.18
- Isaiah 30:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”
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 15:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?
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 - Jeremiah 50:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Line up in formation around Babylon, all you who draw the bow! Shoot at her! Spare no arrows! For she has sinned against the LORD.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 51:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!
Read word by word - Lamentations 2:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.
Read word by word - Lamentations 2:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.
Read word by word - Lamentations 2:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.
Read word by word - Lamentations 3:43
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.
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 36:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they had gone.
Read word by word - Joel 2:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the LORD became jealous for His land, and He spared His people.
Read word by word - Habakkuk 1:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Will he, therefore, empty his net and continue to slay nations without mercy?
Read word by word - Zechariah 11:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them.
Read word by word - Zechariah 11:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the LORD, but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king, who will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from their hands.”
Read word by word - Malachi 3:17
· BSB · 2 occurrences
“They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.
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