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1 Samuel 15:9
“But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H2550 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to commiserate; by implication, to spare
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- have compassion, (have) pity, spare.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יַּחְמֹל֩ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 41 times in the Hebrew Bible.Exodus 2:6Deuteronomy 13:91 Samuel 15:31 Samuel 15:151 Samuel 23:21
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read חָמַל here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.