# חָמַל (chamal)

Israeli respelling: cha-mal. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2550. 40 Old Testament occurrences.

to commiserate; by implication, to spare

King James renderings: have compassion, (have) pity, spare.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chamal-h2550

## Occurrences

- [Exodus 2:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/2/6) — And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebr…
- [Deuteronomy 13:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/13/8) — Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conce…
- [1 Samuel 15:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/3) — Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox a…
- [1 Samuel 15:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/9) — But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good,…
- [1 Samuel 15:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/15) — And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto t…
- [1 Samuel 23:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/23/21) — And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye have compassion on me.
- [2 Samuel 12:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/12/4) — And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man th…
- [2 Samuel 12:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/12/6) — And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.
- [2 Samuel 21:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/21/7) — But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD’s oath that was between them, between David and…
- [2 Chronicles 36:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/36/15) — And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people,…
- [2 Chronicles 36:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/36/17) — Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had n…
- [Job 6:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/10) — Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
- [Job 16:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/16/13) — His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
- [Job 20:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/20/13) — Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
- [Job 27:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/27/22) — For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
- [Proverbs 6:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/6/34) — For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
- [Isaiah 9:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/9/19) — Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brothe…
- [Isaiah 30:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/14) — And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found…
- [Jeremiah 13:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/13/14) — 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 merc…
- [Jeremiah 15:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/15/5) — For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
- [Jeremiah 21:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/21/7) — 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 f…
- [Jeremiah 50:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/50/14) — Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against t…
- [Jeremiah 51:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/3) — Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young…
- [Lamentations 2:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/2) — The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daug…
- [Lamentations 2:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/17) — The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and…
- [Lamentations 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/21) — The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the da…
- [Lamentations 3:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/43) — Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
- [Ezekiel 5:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/5/11) — Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine…
- [Ezekiel 7:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/7/4) — And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in t…
- [Ezekiel 7:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/7/9) — And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the…
- [Ezekiel 8:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/8/18) — Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice,…
- [Ezekiel 9:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/9/5) — And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:
- [Ezekiel 9:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/9/10) — And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
- [Ezekiel 16:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/5) — None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing…
- [Ezekiel 36:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/36/21) — But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.
- [Joel 2:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/18) — Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.
- [Habakkuk 1:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/1/17) — Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
- [Zechariah 11:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/11/5) — Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own…
- [Zechariah 11:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/11/6) — For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour’s hand, a…
- [Malachi 3:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/3/17) — And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son…