Genesis 19:19
Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
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Mercy
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Jude 1:21
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
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חֶסֶד
cheçed · kheh'-sed
137 times translated as this KJV form248 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 19:19Strong's last: Zechariah 7:9
Open full H2617 profile →רָחַם
râcham · raw-kham'
32 times translated as this KJV form47 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 33:19Strong's last: Zechariah 10:6
Open full H7355 profile →ἔλεος
éleos · el'-eh-os
28 times translated as this KJV form30 total Strong's occurrences
compassion (human or divine, especially active)
Strong's KJV usage: :--(+ tender) mercy.
Strong's first: Matthew 9:13Strong's last: Jude 1:21
Open full G1656 profile →ἐλεέω
eleéō · el-eh-eh'-o
18 times translated as this KJV form33 total Strong's occurrences
to compassionate (by word or deed, specially, by divine grace)
Strong's KJV usage: :--have compassion (pity on), have (obtain, receive, shew) mercy (on).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 5:7Strong's last: 1 Peter 2:10
Open full G1653 profile →חָנַן
chânan · khaw-nan'
16 times translated as this KJV form77 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 7:2Strong's last: Proverbs 14:31
Open full H2603 profile →רַחַם
racham · rakh'-am
4 times translated as this KJV form44 total Strong's occurrences
compassion (in the plural); by extension, the womb (as cherishing the fetus); by implication, a maiden
Strong's KJV usage: bowels, compassion, damsel, tender love, (great, tender) mercy, pity, womb.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 43:14Strong's last: Isaiah 47:6
Open full H7356 profile →ἀνίλεως
aníleōs · an-ee'-leh-oce
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
inexorable
Strong's KJV usage: :--without mercy.
Strong's first: James 2:13Strong's last: James 2:13
Open full G448 profile →οἰκτιρμός
oiktirmós · oyk-tir-mos'
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
pity
Strong's KJV usage: :--mercy.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Hebrews 10:28Strong's last: Hebrews 10:28
Open full G3628 profile →οἰκτίρμων
oiktírmōn · oyk-tir'-mone
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
compassionate
Strong's KJV usage: :--merciful, of tender mercy.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: James 5:11Strong's last: James 5:11
Open full G3629 profile →חֲנַן
chănan · khan-an'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to favor or (causatively) to entreat
Strong's KJV usage: shew mercy, make supplication.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Daniel 4:27Strong's last: Daniel 4:27
Open full H2604 profile →כַּפֹּרֶת
kappôreth · kap-po'-reth
1 times translated as this KJV form27 total Strong's occurrences
a lid (used only of the cover of the sacred Ark)
Strong's KJV usage: mercy seat.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Leviticus 16:2Strong's last: Leviticus 16:2
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23 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
H2617
Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.
H2617
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
no direct Strong's tag
And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
no direct Strong's tag
And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.
no direct Strong's tag
And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
no direct Strong's tag
And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.
no direct Strong's tag
And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.
no direct Strong's tag
And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
no direct Strong's tag
And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
no direct Strong's tag
And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.
no direct Strong's tag
And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee.
no direct Strong's tag
The tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is thereupon, and all the furniture of the tabernacle,
H7355
And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
H7355
And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
H2617
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
no direct Strong's tag
The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering,
no direct Strong's tag
And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
no direct Strong's tag
And he made two cherubims of gold, beaten out of one piece made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat;
no direct Strong's tag
One cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the other end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
no direct Strong's tag
And the cherubims spread out their wings on high, and covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another; even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims.
no direct Strong's tag
And the cherubims spread out their wings on high, and covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another; even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims.
no direct Strong's tag
The ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat,
no direct Strong's tag
And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:
English meaning and historical usage.
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mercy
MER'CY, noun [Latin misericordia.]
1. That benevolence, mildness or tenderness of heart which disposes a person to overlook injuries, or to treat an offender better than he deserves; the disposition that tempers justice, and induces an injured person to forgive trespasses and injuries, and to forbear punishment, or inflict less than law or justice will warrant. In this sense, there is perhaps no word in our language precisely synonymous with mercy That which comes nearest to it is grace. It implies benevolence, tenderness, mildness, pity or compassion, and clemency, but exercised only towards offenders. mercy is a distinguishing attribute of the Supreme Being.
The Lord is long-suffering and of great mercy forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty. Numbers 14:18.
2. An act or exercise of mercy or favor. It is a mercy that they escaped.
I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies. Genesis 32:1.
3. Pity; compassion manifested towards a person in distress.
And he said, he that showed mercy on him. Luke 10:37.
4. Clemency and bounty.
Mercy and truth preserve the king; and his throne is upheld by mercy Proverbs 28:13.
5. Charity, or the duties of charity and benevolence.
I will have mercy and not sacrifice. Matthew 9:13.
6. Grace; favor. 1 Corinthians 7:25. Jude 1:2.
7. Eternal life, the fruit of mercy 2 Timothy 1:2.
8. Pardon.
I cry thee mercy with all my heart.
9. The act of sparing, or the forbearance of a violent act expected. The prisoner cried for mercy
To be or to lie at the mercy of, to have no means of self-defense, but to be dependent for safety on the mercy or compassion of another, or in the power of that which is irresistible; as, to be at the mercy of a foe, or of the waves.
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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