Strong's #5162: nacham (pronounced 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 Hebrew Lexicon:
nâcham
1) to be sorry, console oneself, repent, regret, comfort, be comforted
1a) (Niphal)
1a1) to be sorry, be moved to pity, have compassion
1a2) to be sorry, rue, suffer grief, repent
1a3) to comfort oneself, be comforted
1a4) to comfort oneself, ease oneself
1b) (Piel) to comfort, console
1c) (Pual) to be comforted, be consoled
1d) (Hithpael)
1d1) to be sorry, have compassion
1d2) to rue, repent of
1d3) to comfort oneself, be comforted
1d4) to ease oneself
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 108 times:
Genesis 5:29: "Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil"
Genesis 6:6: " And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved"
Genesis 6:7: "the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made"
Genesis 24:67: "his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's"
Genesis 27:42: "him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill"
Genesis 37:35: "and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For"
Genesis 37:35: "rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave"
Genesis 38:12: "Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers"
Genesis 50:21: "I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke kindly"
Exodus 13:17: "said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:"
Exodus 32:12: "the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of"
Exodus 32:14: "And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people."
Numbers 23:19: "that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do"
Deuteronomy 32:36: "the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth"
Judges 2:18: "all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings"
Judges 21:6: "And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one"
Judges 21:15: "And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes"
Ruth 2:13: "in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly"
1 Samuel 15:11: " It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back"
1 Samuel 15:29: "will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he"
1 Samuel 15:29: "he is not a man, that he should repent."
1 Samuel 15:35: "for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king"
2 Samuel 10:2: "unto me. And David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father."
2 Samuel 10:3: "thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent"
2 Samuel 12:24: "And David comforted Bath-sheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay"
2 Samuel 13:39: "unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead."
2 Samuel 24:16: "upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel"
1 Chronicles 7:22: "days, and his brethren came to comfort"
1 Chronicles 19:2: "me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David"
1 Chronicles 19:2: "of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort"
1 Chronicles 19:3: "thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto"
1 Chronicles 21:15: "it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel"
Job 2:11: "for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort"
Job 7:13: "When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;"
Job 16:2: "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: "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: "with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that"
Psalms 23:4: "me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort"
Psalms 69:20: "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: "not: my soul refused to be comforted."
Psalms 86:17: "because thou, LORD, hast helped me, and comforted"
Psalms 90:13: "Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants."
Psalms 106:45: "And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies."
Psalms 110:4: "The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest forever after"
Psalms 119:52: "thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself."
Psalms 119:76: "Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant."
Psalms 119:82: "for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort"
