Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H5162

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Original: נחם

Transliteration: nacham (nâcham)

Phonetic: naw-kham'

BDB Definition:

to be sorry, console oneself, repent, regret, comfort, be comforted
1. (Niphal)
  1. to be sorry, be moved to pity, have compassion
  2. to be sorry, rue, suffer grief, repent
  3. to comfort oneself, be comforted
  4. to comfort oneself, ease oneself
2. (Piel) to comfort, console
3. (Pual) to be comforted, be consoled
4. (Hithpael)
  1. to be sorry, have compassion
  2. to rue, repent of
  3. to comfort oneself, be comforted
  4. to ease oneself

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT entry: 1344

Part(s) of speech: Verb

Strong's Definition: A primitive root; properly to sigh, that is, breathe strongly; by implication to be sorry, that is, (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).

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (108x)

And Comfort (1x)

And Have Comforted (1x)

And He Comforted (1x)

And He Repented (1x)

And He Will Repent (1x)

And I Repented (1x)

And It Repented (1x)

And Repent (5x)

And Repented (2x)

And Repentest (1x)

And Repenteth (1x)

And They Had No Comforter (1x)

And They Shall Comfort (1x)

And Thou Comfortedst (1x)

And Will Comfort (1x)

And Will Not Repent (2x)

And Ye Shall Be Comforted (1x)

As Touching Thee, Doth Comfort (1x)

Be For My Comfort (1x)

Because The Comforter (1x)

But They Had No Comforter (1x)

By Whom Shall I Comfort (1x)

Comfort (1x)

Comforted (1x)

Comforters (4x)

Comforteth (2x)

For He Was Comforted (1x)

For I Repent (1x)

For It Repented (1x)

For It Repenteth (1x)

For That Thou Hast Comforted (1x)

Hath Comforted (2x)

He That Comforteth (1x)

He Will Comfort (1x)

Him, And Comforted (1x)

How Long? And Let It Repent (1x)

How Then Comfort (1x)

I Repented (1x)

I Will Ease (1x)

I Will Repent (1x)

In That Thou Art A Comfort (1x)

It Repenteth (1x)

Me, And Comforted (1x)

Neither Will I Repent (1x)

None To Comfort (2x)

None; And For Comforters (1x)

Nor Repent (1x)

Not Comforted (1x)

Not To Comfort (1x)

Repent (1x)

Repented (10x)

Shall Be Comforted (1x)

Shall Comfort (3x)

Shall Yet Comfort (1x)

She Had No Comforter (1x)

She Hath None To Comfort (1x)

Should I Receive Comfort (1x)

So Will I Comfort (1x)

That He Should Repent (2x)

That I May Repent (1x)

Them, And Shall Be Comforted (1x)

Then I Will Repent (1x)

They Comfort (2x)

To Be Comforted (3x)

To Comfort (7x)

To Thee, That I May Comfort (1x)

Upon Them, And I Will Be Comforted (1x)

Was Comforted (2x)

When Wilt Thou Comfort (1x)

Will Repent (1x)

With Him And To Comfort (1x)

With Repenting (1x)

Ye, Comfort (1x)

You; And Ye Shall Be Comforted (1x)

All Occurrences

Genesis 5:29

And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed.(g)

Genesis 6:6

And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

Genesis 6:7

And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.(c)

Genesis 24:67

And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Genesis 27:42

And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.

Genesis 37:35

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

Genesis 38:12

And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah’s wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.(b)

Genesis 50:21

Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.(d)

Exodus 13:17

And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:

Exodus 32:12

Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.

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.(o)

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.(c)

(d)

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.(e)

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.

2 Samuel 10:2

Then said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.

2 Samuel 10:3

And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?(a)

2 Samuel 12:24

And David comforted Bath–sheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the Lord loved him.

2 Samuel 13:39

And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.(s)

2 Samuel 24:16

And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.(e)

1 Chronicles 7:22

And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.

1 Chronicles 19:2

And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.

1 Chronicles 19:3

But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?(a)

1 Chronicles 21:15

And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the Lord beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.(e)

Job 2:11

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

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.(a)

Job 21:34

How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?(n)

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Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

Strong's Concor­dance

Hebrew-Aramaic H5162

Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

Thayers Information

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H5162