Strong’s H2550 · Hebrew

חָמַל
châmal
khaw-mal'

Definition

to commiserate; by implication, to spare

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

  • have compassion
  • (have) pity
  • spare

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.