Racham — Compassion
From the Hebrew word for 'womb' — God's compassion pictured as a mother's fierce tenderness for the child she carried.
Pronunciation: raw-kham'
Hebrew · Strong's H7355 · 43 occurrences in the Old Testament (KJV)
to fondle; by implication, to love, especially to compassionate
KJV translations: have compassion (on, upon), love, (find, have, obtain, shew) mercy(-iful, on, upon), (have) pity, Ruhamah, [idiom] surely.
Racham in the Bible — example verses
“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.”Exodus 33:19 (KJV)
“And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;”Deuteronomy 13:17 (KJV)
“That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.”Deuteronomy 30:3 (KJV)
“And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:”1 Kings 8:50 (KJV)
“And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.”2 Kings 13:23 (KJV)
“[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,] I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.”Psalms 18:1 (KJV)
“Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.”Psalms 102:13 (KJV)
“Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.”Psalms 103:13 (KJV)
These are the first 8 of 43 occurrences. See every verse containing H7355, with Strong's tagging and study tools:
Open H7355 in the Ekdia Concordance →Related Love & Grace words
Definitions from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance. Verse text from the King James Version. Study any word free at Ekdia — no ads, no subscriptions.