Lexicon
רַחֲמָנִי
rach.ma.ni
H7362
H:A Hebrew

compassionate

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rach.ma.ni describes women characterized as compassionate in a scene of devastation.

The sole attestation describes women characterized as compassionate, set against the devastating action reported in the verse.

Senses in use

  1. Women characterized as compassionate · dominant

    In Lamentations 4:10, the feminine plural adjective modifies “women” in the clause concerning their hands and their youths; the APB renders the verse, “The hands of compassionate women have boiled their youths.”

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Lamentations 4:10, the APB presents the women as “compassionate,”.

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