1 womb, Genesis 49:25 (J) Jeremiah 20:17; Job 24:20; מֵרחם i.e. from birth Jeremiah 20:17; Psalm 22:11; Psalm 58:4; Job 3:11 (מִנִּי), Isaiah 46:3, figurative Psalm 110:3; בָּרֶחֶם Job 31:15; ׳יצא מֵר go forth from womb in birth Jeremiah 1:5; Jeremiah 20:18; Job 38:8, compare Job 10:18; אֵם ׳מֵר Numbers 12:12 (E); ׳פתח ר open the womb, in order to childbirth Genesis 29:31; Genesis 30:22 (JE); כָּלמֶּֿטֶר רחם all that first opens womb (of men and animals) Exodus 13:12,15; Exodus 34:19 (J) Numbers 18:15 (P) Ezekiel 20:26; ׳פטר ר Numbers 3:12 (P), ׳מִּטְרַת כל ר Numbers 8:16; ׳פטר כל ר Exodus 13:2 (P); on the other hand, מַשִׁכִּיל ׳ר Hosea 9:14 miscarrying womb; ׳עֹצֶר ר Proverbs 30:16 restraint (i.e. barrenness) of womb (so Psalm 107:36 Perles^{Anal. 85}); ׳עָצַר בְּעַד ר (of God) Genesis 20:18 (E); סָגַר ׳ר (בְּעַד) 1 Samuel 1:5,6, preventing childbirth.

2 womb-man, woman-slave: רַחַם רַחֲמָתַיִם Judges 5:30 a woman, two women.

רַחֲמִים noun masculine^{2Samuel 24:14}

absolute plural intensive compassion (according to many denominative from רֶחֶם, originally brotherhood, brotherly feeling, of those born from same womb, see Nö^{ZMG xl (1886), 151} (yet see 152) We^{GGN 1893, 475} Gerber¹²⁶, or motherly feeling Kö^{ii. 1, 34}); — absolute ׳ר Genesis 43:14 +; construct רַחֲמֵי Proverbs 12:10; suffix רַחֲמָיו Lamentations 3:22 (Baer Gi; van d. H. Qr, Kt רחמו), 2 Samuel 24:14 Qr (> Kt רחמו), etc.; —

1 compassion: usually of God Isaiah 63:7,15; Psalm 77:10; Psalm 79:8; Psalm 119:77; Zechariah 1:16; Daniel 9:9; Nehemiah 9:28; with רבים 2 Samuel 24:14 = 1 Chronicles 21:13; Nehemiah 9:19,27,31; Psalm 119:156; Daniel 9:18; גדולים Isaiah 54:7; "" חסד Psalm 40:12; Psalm 103:4; Hosea 2:21; Jeremiah 16:5; חסדים Psalm 25:6; כרֹב רחמיךָ Psalm 51:3; Psalm 69:17; with על of thing Psalm 145:9; ל ׳נתן ר Deuteronomy 13:18; Jeremiah 42:12; ׳לא כלו ר Lamentations 3:22.

2 of man, Amos 1:11; Proverbs 12:10; ׳עשׂה ר Zechariah 7:9; לִפְנֵי ׳ר ׳נָתַן לפ Genesis 43:14 (R); נתן לִפְנֵי ׳לר ׳פ 1 Kings 8:50; Nehemiah 1:11; Daniel 1:9; Psalm 106:46, compare 2Chronicles 30:9; ל ׳שׂם ר Isaiah 47:6; אל ׳נִכְמְרוּ ר Genesis 43:30 (J), with על 2 Kings 3:26.