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רחמן adj. merciful, Merciful One (→ √רחם ; CPA ܪܚܡܢ LSp 193, SA רחמן ST Dt 4:31; > Sy ܪܚܡܢܐ LS 724) רחמן FPT Ex 22:22[01];- 1. adj. merciful: חנן ורחמן TN Ex 22:22; ib. 34:6 [H חנון ורחום ]; Num 12:13; Der 46:4; כמא דאנא רחמן בשמיא כך תהוון רחמנין בארעא just as I am merciful in Heaven, so you should be merciful on earth Ber 9c(21) // Meg 75c(12); 2. n.m.det. the Merciful One (i.e. God): לשמה דרחמנה for the name of God Naveh 70:18; בריך רחמנא דלי נא חכים מידון blessed is God that I don't know how to judge San 18a(40); Pea 15c(42) // Qid 61b(31); ib. 64d(12); BM 8d(38); אולפניה דרחמנא God's teaching San 20a(7) // Hor 47a(46); Kil 32c(25); Tan 65b(43) ־ //'s]; BM 8c(37); San 29a(48); מן דרחמנה ומן עמלה from what God (gave him) and his possessions Naveh 42:4; מן רחמנא ומבית אבהתה from God and the house of her fathers JMP 2:28; ib. 29:13 A. Geiger, ZDMG 21(1867):688; Naveh 91. From the large number of exx. now available from a variety of Palestinian sources, Bacher's inference (v. Term 2:207, n. 4) that this is a Babylonian designation should be rejected. 