חוּס chûwç — properly, to cover, i.e. (figuratively) to compassionate
Translated in the KJV as pity, regard, spare.
a primitive root; properly, to cover, i.e. (figuratively) to compassionate.
chûwç in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 16Jussive 2Wayyiqtol 2Imperative 2Perfect (qatal) 2
Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.
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.
But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›