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pity

Meaning of “pity”

Sense 1: Compassion or sorrow awakened by another's distress. Sense 2: As a verb, to feel or show compassion.

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30 occurrences29 verses13 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Deuteronomy 7:16

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Jeremiah 13:14
And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the Lord: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jeremiah 13:14 · retained source text

And I will dash them one against another, euen the fathers and the sonnes together, saith the LORD: I wil not pitie nor spare, nor haue mercie, but destroy them.

1611 marginal noteHeb. a man against his brother.

1611 marginal noteHeb. from destroying them.

Jeremiah 15:5
For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 15:5 · retained source text

For who shall haue pitie vpon thee, O Ierusalem? or who shall bemoane thee? or who shall goe aside to aske how thou doest?

1611 marginal noteHebr. to aske of thy thy peace.

Jeremiah 21:7
And afterward, saith the Lord, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 21:7 · retained source text

And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliuer Zedekiah king of Iudah, and his seruants, and the people, and such as are left in this citie from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seeke their life, and and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword: hee shall not spare them, neither haue pitie, nor haue mercy.

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