# רַחַם (racham) Israeli respelling: ra-cham. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H7356. 44 Old Testament occurrences. compassion (in the plural); by extension, the womb (as cherishing the fetus); by implication, a maiden King James renderings: bowels, compassion, damsel, tender love, (great, tender) mercy, pity, womb. Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/racham-h7356 ## Occurrences - [Genesis 43:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/43/14) — And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I… - [Genesis 43:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/43/30) — And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept th… - [Genesis 49:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/49/25) — Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of… - [Deuteronomy 13:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/13/17) — 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 mer… - [Judges 5:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/5/30) — Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colo… - [2 Samuel 24:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/24/14) — And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall… - [1 Kings 3:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/3/26) — Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the l… - [1 Kings 8:50](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/8/50) — And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give th… - [1 Chronicles 21:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/21/13) — And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not… - [2 Chronicles 30:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/30/9) — For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they… - [Nehemiah 1:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/1/11) — O LORD, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear… - [Nehemiah 9:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/19) — Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them… - [Nehemiah 9:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/27) — Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee… - [Nehemiah 9:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/28) — But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the do… - [Nehemiah 9:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/31) — Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God. - [Psalms 25:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/25/6) — Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old. - [Psalms 40:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/40/11) — Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me. - [Psalms 51:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/51/1) — Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. - [Psalms 69:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/69/16) — Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. - [Psalms 77:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/77/9) — Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. - [Psalms 79:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/79/8) — O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low. - [Psalms 103:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/103/4) — Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; - [Psalms 106:46](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/106/46) — He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives. - [Psalms 119:77](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/77) — Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight. - [Psalms 119:156](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/156) — Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments. - [Psalms 145:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/145/9) — The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. - [Proverbs 12:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/12/10) — A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. - [Proverbs 30:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/30/16) — The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough. - [Isaiah 46:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/46/3) — Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from… - [Isaiah 47:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/47/6) — I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancie… - [Isaiah 54:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/54/7) — For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. - [Isaiah 63:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/63/7) — I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the g… - [Isaiah 63:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/63/15) — Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of… - [Jeremiah 16:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/16/5) — For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from th… - [Jeremiah 42:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/42/12) — And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land. - [Lamentations 3:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/22) — It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. - [Ezekiel 20:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/26) — And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them deso… - [Daniel 1:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/1/9) — Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs. - [Daniel 9:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/9/9) — To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him; - [Daniel 9:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/9/18) — O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not… - [Hosea 2:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/2/19) — And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in… - [Amos 1:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/1/11) — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his… - [Zechariah 1:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/1/16) — Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line… - [Zechariah 7:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/7/9) — Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: