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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
Pielcomfort, 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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  • Job 7:13
    When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
  • Job 16:2
    I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
  • Job 21:34
    How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
  • Job 29:25
    I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
  • Job 42:6
    Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
  • Job 42:11
    Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
  • Psalms 23:4
    Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
  • Psalms 69:20
    Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
  • Psalms 71:21
    Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
  • Psalms 77:2
    In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.