רָחַם râcham — to fondle
Translated in the KJV as have compassion (on, upon), love, (find, have, obtain, shew) mercy(-iful, on, pity, Ruhamah, × surely.
a primitive root; to fondle; by implication, to love, especially to compassionate.
râcham in each stem
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 19Sequential perfect (weqatal) 10Perfect (qatal) 4Infinitive construct 3Participle (active) 3Infinitive absolute 2Wayyiqtol 1
And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord thy God.
That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee.
Pu'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Perfect (qatal) 1
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
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 ›