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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H2617
For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
H2617
For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
H2617
But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
H2603
O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
H2617
For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
H2617
Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
H2617
But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
H2617
My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
H2617
O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
H2617
When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
H2617
He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
H2617
For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
H2617
<<A Psalm of David.>> I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.
H7355
Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
H2617
The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
H2617
For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
H2617
But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;
H2617
Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
H2617
O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
H2617
For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.
H2617
Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
H2617
Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
H2617
But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
H2617
Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
H2617
Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.
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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