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Strong's numbers

נָחַם (H5162)

nâcham

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).

Brown–Driver–Briggs

[נחם] vb. Niph. be sorry, console oneself, etc.
Niph.
1 be sorry, moved to pity, have compassion, for others
2 be sorry, rue, suffer grief, repent, of one’s own doings
3 comfort oneself, be comforted
4 comfort oneself, ease oneself, by taking vengeance
Piel—comfort, console
Pual; be comforted, consoled
Hithpa.—
1 be sorry, have compassion
2 rue, repent of
3 comfort oneself, be comforted
4 ease oneself, by taking vengeance

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.

100 occurrences

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  • Joel 2:14
    Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
  • Amos 7:3
    The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
  • Amos 7:6
    The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
  • Jonah 3:9
    Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
  • Jonah 3:10
    And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
  • Jonah 4:2
    And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
  • Nahum 3:7
    And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
  • Zechariah 1:17
    Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
  • Zechariah 8:14
    For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:
  • Zechariah 10:2
    For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.