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Pity is not a very common term in Scripture. 
It occurs only 41 times in the entire KJV translation. 
A full 40 times it occurs in Hebrew.
Only once does it occur in Greek.
Two of the terms are properly translated as pity.
Out of the 41 times three terms
are not properly considered pity or compassion.

The primary goal of this study 
is to help eliminate confusion within The Scriptures.
The current state of affairs
has left us with innumerable “translations”
that are not really "translations" at all.
Instead, they are misleading presentations of the "traditions of men".

There's a special term for this. It's called eisegesis.
It means placing one's own ideas into a text
to make it conform to one's own world view or belief system.
Exegesis, on the other hand,
is seeking to discover what the text actually says, and means.

In this word study the following conventions will be used:
Bold = best translation 
{ } = Writer's insertions for purposes of clarity. 

HEBREW  TERMS: 

2347. s…wj chuwcç, khoos; a primitive root; properly, to cover,
i.e. (figuratively) to compassionate:
—pity, regard, spare.                                         [occurs 8 times]

{This is more closely related to protect,
and where the context suggests such this is the translation to be used.} 

2550. lAmDj chamal, khaw-mal´; a primitive root;
to commiserate; by implication, to spare: 
—have compassion, (have) pity, spare.         [occurs 4 times]

2551. hDlVmRj chemlah, khem-law´; from 2550; commiseration:
-merciful, pity.                                                 [occurs 1 time]

{To commiserate means to feel or show sorrow or pity for; sympathize in distress.} 

2603. NÅnDj chanan, khaw-nan´; a primitive root (compare 2583);
properly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior;
 to favor, bestow; causatively to implore (i.e. move to favor by petition):
- beseech, x fair, (be, find, shew) favour(-able), be (deal, give,
grant (gracious(-ly), intreat, (be) merciful, have (shew) mercy (on, upon),
have pity upon, pray, make supplication, x very.   [occurs 4 times]

5110. d…wn nuwd, nood; a primitive root;
to nod, i.e. waver; figuratively, to wander, flee, disappear;
also (from shaking the head in sympathy), to console,
deplore, or (from tossing the head in scorn) taunt:
-bemoan, flee, get, mourn, make to move, take pity, remove,
shake, skip for joy, be sorry, vagabond, way, wandering.       
                                                                         [occurs 1 time] 

5162. MAjÎn nacham, naw-kham´; a primitive root;
properly, to sigh, i.e. breathe strongly; by implication, to be sorry,
i.e. (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue;
or (unfavorably) to avenge (oneself):
-comfort (self), ease (one’s self), repent(-er,-ing, self).
                                                                       [occurs 1 time] 
5164. MAjn nocham, no´-kham; from 5162;
ruefulness, i.e. desistance:
—repentance.                                                [occurs 1 time] 
{Ruefulness means causing sorrow or pity. Desistance means to cease.}

7355. MAj∂r racham, raw-kham´; a primitive root;
to fondle; by implication, to love, especially to compassionate: 
—have compassion (on, upon), love,
(find, have, obtain, shew) mercy(-iful, on, upon), (have) pity, Ruhamah, x surely.
                                                                     [occurs 3 times] 

7356. MAjAr racham, rakh´-am; from 7355;
compassion (in the plural);
by extension, the womb (as cherishing the fetus);
by implication, a maiden:
-bowels, compassion, damsel, tender love,
(great, tender) mercy, pity, womb.
                                                                    [occurs 2 times]

GREEK TERMS:

1653. ejlee÷w eleeo, el-eh-eh´-o; from 1656;
to compassionate (by word or deed, specially, by divine grace): 
— have compassion (pity on), have (obtain, receive, shew) mercy (on).
                                                                     [occurs 1 time]

CONCLUSIONS:

Generally, the terms translated as pity
should more properly be translated as compassion (with its variations.) 

There is little Scriptural support
for the concept of pity
outside of the context of compassion.

By definition, the two terms are synonymous. 
For the sake of consistency in translation
the use of compassion makes more sense.

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