ra.cham describes compassion shown toward people, including mercy that restores, forgives, guides, or refrains from destruction.

The occurrences show compassion directed toward people, most often as the LORD’s favorable action after distress, sin, judgment, or displacement: it accompanies gathering, restoration, forgiveness, and care. The same action may be requested, denied to those facing destruction, or attributed to human agents, while passive forms describe people as receiving it.

1. Showing or receiving compassionate favor · dominant

   Piel forms regularly occur where compassion is shown toward a person or people: in Deuteronomy 30:3 the APB renders it in the clause about returning captivity and gathering the scattered, and in Isaiah 49:10 an active participle identifies the one whose compassion leads and guides people to springs of water. In Jeremiah 42:12 the APB renders a sequence in which compassion is shown so that another ruler may show compassion and restore the people; conversely, Jeremiah 21:7 and Isaiah 13:18 place the term in declarations that no such pity will be shown. The Pual imperfect in Proverbs 28:13 presents the recipient side, where the person who confesses and forsakes transgressions receives compassion.

   Deuteronomy 30:3Isaiah 49:10Jeremiah 42:12Jeremiah 21:7Isaiah 13:18Proverbs 28:13

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term with “have compassion” or “show compassion,” and it also uses “pity,” “mercy,” and “merciful” in relevant clauses. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these renderings indicate the clause’s presentation rather than a fixed English equivalent for every form.