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And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
Read in context →For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
Read in context →18 occurrences in 16 verses.
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chânan · khaw-nan'
properly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore (i.e. move to favor by petition)
Strong's KJV usage: beseech, × fair, (be, find, shew) favour(-able), be (deal, give, grant (gracious(-ly), intreat, (be) merciful, have (shew) mercy (on, upon), have pity upon, pray, make supplication, × very.
Strong's first: Psalms 26:11Strong's last: Psalms 119:132
Open full H2603 profile →rachûwm · rakh-oom'
compassionate
Strong's KJV usage: full of compassion, merciful.
Strong's first: Exodus 34:6Strong's last: Jonah 4:2
Open full H7349 profile →cheçed · kheh'-sed
kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty
Strong's KJV usage: favour, good deed(-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-) kindness, merciful (kindness), mercy, pity, reproach, wicked thing.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 20:31Strong's last: Isaiah 57:1
Open full H2617 profile →châçîyd · khaw-seed'
properly, kind, i.e. (religiously) pious (a saint)
Strong's KJV usage: godly (man), good, holy (one), merciful, saint, (un-) godly.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 22:26Strong's last: Jeremiah 3:12
Open full H2623 profile →eleḗmōn · el-eh-ay'-mone
compassionate (actively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--merciful.
Strong's first: Matthew 5:7Strong's last: Hebrews 2:17
Open full G1655 profile →oiktírmōn · oyk-tir'-mone
compassionate
Strong's KJV usage: :--merciful, of tender mercy.
Strong's first: Luke 6:36Strong's last: Luke 6:36
Open full G3629 profile →châçad · khaw-sad'
properly, perhaps to bow (the neck only [compare 2603] in courtesy to an equal), i.e. to be kind; also (by euphemistically [compare 1288], but rarely) to reprove
Strong's KJV usage: shew self merciful, put to shame.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 22:26Strong's last: Psalms 18:25
Open full H2616 profile →kâphar · kaw-far'
to cover (specifically with bitumen); figuratively, to expiate or condone, to placate or cancel
Strong's KJV usage: appease, make (an atonement, cleanse, disannul, forgive, be merciful, pacify, pardon, purge (away), put off, (make) reconcile(-liation).
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 21:8Strong's last: Deuteronomy 32:43
Open full H3722 profile →hiláskomai · hil-as'-kom-ahee
to conciliate, i.e. (transitively) to atone for (sin), or (intransitively) be propitious
Strong's KJV usage: :--be merciful, make reconciliation for.
Strong's first: Luke 18:13Strong's last: Luke 18:13
Open full G2433 profile →híleōs · hil'-eh-oce
cheerful (as attractive), i.e. propitious; adverbially (by Hebraism) God be gracious!, i.e. (in averting some calamity) far be it
Strong's KJV usage: :--be it far, merciful.
Strong's first: Hebrews 8:12Strong's last: Hebrews 8:12
Open full G2436 profile →chemlâh · khem-law'
commiseration
Strong's KJV usage: merciful, pity.
Strong's first: Genesis 19:16Strong's last: Genesis 19:16
Open full H2551 profile →râcham · raw-kham'
to fondle; by implication, to love, especially to compassionate
Strong's KJV usage: have compassion (on, upon), love, (find, have, obtain, shew) mercy(-iful, on, upon), (have) pity, Ruhamah, × surely.
Strong's first: Psalms 116:5Strong's last: Psalms 116:5
Open full H7355 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
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For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.
I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.
Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.
Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.
The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.
The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.
And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
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MER'CIFUL, adjective [from mercy.] Having or exercising mercy; compassionate; tender; disposed to pity offenders and to forgive their offenses; unwilling to punish for injuries; applied appropriately to the Supreme being.
The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth. Exodus 34:6.
1. Compassionate; tender; unwilling to give pain; not cruel. A merciful man will be merciful to his beast.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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