Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to pity
Usage: (Qal) to pity, have compassion, spare, look upon with compassion
Chuc means “pity” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2347 — thlipsis (“anguish”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2347 חוּס (chuwc) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. chuwc (khoos) v. 1. (properly) to cover, i.e. (figuratively) to compassionate [a primitive root] It has 24 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include pity and spare. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
chuwc (khoos) v. 1. (properly) to cover, i.e. (figuratively) to compassionate [a primitive root] KJV: pity, regard, spare.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2347. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to pity
Usage: (Qal) to pity, have compassion, spare, look upon with compassion
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chuwc, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
24 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is your's.
And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
First 24 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2347.
Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is your's.
And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.
Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD's anointed.
And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.
He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.
Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.
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 mercy, but destroy them.
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 from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.
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 the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
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 midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth.
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, yet will I not hear them.
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:
And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
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 of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.
Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.
Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2347, grouped by book.
Chuc (Strong's H2347) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "pity". chuwc (khoos) v. 1. (properly) to cover, i.e. (figuratively) to compassionate [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 24 linked usages for Strong's H2347 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2347 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as pity and spare. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.