Definition

to fondle; by implication, to love, especially to compassionate

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• have compassion (on
• upon)
• love
• (find
• have
• obtain
• shew) mercy(-iful
• on
• (have) pity
• Ruhamah
• surely

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.