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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Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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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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H7355
They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
H7355
And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
H7355
And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
H7355
Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.
H7355
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
H2617
The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.
H7355
Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
H7355
And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.
H7355
They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
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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