COMPASSION, mercy — and the word is built on RECHEM, the WOMB. Hebrew's ordinary term for mercy is mother-love: the physical ache of a parent for a child. Genesis 43 uses it twice, and the pairing is the chapter's quietest miracle. Jacob prays 'may El Shaddai give you COMPASSION before the man' (43:14), asking God to put womb-feeling into a hard Egyptian official; sixteen verses later that official sees his little brother and 'his COMPASSION grew warm toward his brother' (nikhmeru rachamav, 43:30 — the verb means to grow hot, to be kindled) and he has to leave the room to weep. The prayer is answered in a body Jacob does not know is his son's. KJV renders 43:30 'his bowels did yearn upon his brother' — genuinely faithful to the physicality, and simply aged into comedy. → first discussed at Gen 43:14