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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

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Exodus 32:14
    And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
  • Numbers 23:19
    God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
  • Deuteronomy 32:36
    For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
  • Judges 2:18
    And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
  • Judges 21:6
    And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
  • Judges 21:15
    And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
  • Ruth 2:13
    Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.
  • 1 Samuel 15:11
    It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
  • 1 Samuel 15:29
    And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.
  • 1 Samuel 15:35
    And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.