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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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  • Isaiah 61:2
    To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
  • Isaiah 66:13
    As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
  • Jeremiah 4:28
    For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
  • Jeremiah 8:6
    I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
  • Jeremiah 15:6
    Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
  • Jeremiah 16:7
    Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
  • Jeremiah 18:8
    If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
  • Jeremiah 18:10
    If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
  • Jeremiah 20:16
    And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
  • Jeremiah 26:3
    If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.