רַחוּם
ra.chum
compassionate
Lexicon Entry
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Occurrences in Scripture
13 total occurrences across the text
Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
Deuteronomy 4:31For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
2 Chronicles 30:9For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children will find compassion before those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, because Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”
Nehemiah 9:17and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.
Nehemiah 9:31“Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.
Psalms 78:38But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.
Psalms 86:15But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
Psalms 103:8Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
Psalms 111:4He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered. Yahweh is gracious and merciful.
Psalms 112:4Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.
Psalms 145:8Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
Joel 2:13Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
Jonah 4:2He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.