Bible word study

Racham (Strong’s H7356): Meaning in the Bible

Racham (רַחַם) is the Hebrew word numbered H7356 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as compassion (in the plural); by extension, the womb (as cherishing the fetus); by implication, a maiden. In the King James Bible it is translated bowels, compassion, damsel, tender love, (great.

• Original wordרַחַם
• Transliterationracham
• Pronunciationrakh'-am
• Part of speechnoun (feminine) (n-f)
• Strong’s numberH7356
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H7355;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Racham appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Racham (H7356) stands behind 44 English renderings in 44 verses across 18 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Psalms (11), Nehemiah (5), Isaiah (5).

How the King James Bible renders Racham, by count

• mercies26 of 44 (59 percent)
• mercy4 of 44 (9 percent)
• womb4 of 44 (9 percent)
• bowels2 of 44 (5 percent)
• compassion2 of 44 (5 percent)
• compassions2 of 44 (5 percent)

Three places to read Racham

• Genesis 43:14 And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
• Nehemiah 9:31 Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
• Isaiah 47:6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Racham in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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