רַחֲמוּ, (preced.) love; loveliness; mercy. Targ. Ez. XXIII, 17. Targ. Prov. V, 19. Ib. XVII, 9 (ed. Wil. רְחִמוּ׳; Bxt. רְחִימ׳). Targ. Ps. XXIX, 10 כורסי ר׳ (= h. כסא רחמים, v. כִּסֵּא); a. e.—B. Bath. 16ᵃ, v. רַחְמָנוּתָא.—Trnsf. maternal instinct, giving suck to a strange animal (v. רָחַם, a. רְחַם). Bekh. 24ᵃ חיישינן לר׳ we consider the possibility of her giving suck to a strange animal.