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Hebrew verb · H5162

נָחַם

nachamnaw-kham'

to be sorry: comfort

108 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: nâcham

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5162is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 21 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 90
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5162

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)

The King James renders it: comfort (self), ease (one's self), repent(-er,-ing, self).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

nacham is rendered "to be sorry: comfort". It stands 108 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-one books.

  • Seventeen of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 5:29And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”
  • The Greek text spells it ninety different ways.

The first use

And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”

Genesis 5:29יְנַחֲמֵ֤נוּ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • a comforter7
  • to comfort him6
  • and he relented5
  • comforters3
  • to be comforted3
  • and he comforted2
  • and he was comforted2
  • and he will relent2
  • and I will relent2
  • comfort2
  • he had compassion2
  • he has comforted2

and 65 more, 108 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

נָחַלnachalto inheritUses59
נָחַתnachathto descendUses11
נָחַשׁnachashto divineUses11
נָחַץnachatsto urgeUses1

The words it stands beside

All 108, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

90 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • וַיִּנָּ֣חֶם5
  • מְנַחֵ֖ם3
  • נִחַ֥ם3
  • וַיְנַחֵ֣ם2
  • וְנִחַ֖ם2
  • וְנִחָ֖ם2
  • וְנִֽחַמְתִּי֙2
  • לְנַחֲמ֣וֹ2
  • לְנַחֲמֽוֹ׃2
  • מְנַחֵם֙2
  • נִחַ֤ם2
  • נִחַ֖מְתִּי2

and 78 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/VNw3ms9Hc/VNw3ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular7HVprmsa
  • preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular6HR/Vpcc/Sp3ms
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular6HVNp1cs
  • Hc/VNq1cs4Hc/VNq1cs
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular4HVNi3ms
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular4HVNp3ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular4HVpp3ms
  • Hc/VNq3ms3Hc/VNq3ms
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular3HVNi1cs
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular3HVNrmsa
  • verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural3HVprmpa

Genesis

nine uses
  • And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”

    Genesis 5:29

    • יְנַחֲמֵ֤נוּyenachamenuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: he will comfort us
  • And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

    Genesis 6:6

    • וַיִּנָּ֣חֶםvaiyinachemHc/VNw3mstagged: and he regretted
  • So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”

    Genesis 6:7

    • נִחַ֖מְתִּיnichamtiverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I regret
  • And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.

    Genesis 24:67

    • וַיִּנָּחֵ֥םvaiyinachemHc/VNw3mstagged: and he was comforted
  • When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.

    Genesis 27:42

    • מִתְנַחֵ֥םmitnachemverb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singulartagged: comforting himself
  • All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.

    Genesis 37:35

    • לְנַחֲמ֗וֹlenachamopreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to comfort him
    • לְהִתְנַחֵ֔םlehitnachempreposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be comforted
  • After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.

    Genesis 38:12

    • וַיִּנָּ֣חֶםvaiyinachemHc/VNw3mstagged: and he was comforted
  • Therefore do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” So Joseph reassured his brothers and spoke kindly to them.

    Genesis 50:21

    • וַיְנַחֵ֣םvaynachemHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he comforted

Exodus

three uses
  • When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them along the road through the land of the Philistines, though it was shorter. For God said, “If the people face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.”

    Exodus 13:17

    • יִנָּחֵ֥םyinachemverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it should regret
  • Why should the Egyptians declare, ‘He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people.

    Exodus 32:12

    • וְהִנָּחֵ֥םvehinachemconjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and relent
  • So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.

    Exodus 32:14

    • וַיִּנָּ֖חֶםvaiyinachemHc/VNw3mstagged: and he relented

Numbers

one use
  • God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?

    Numbers 23:19

    • וְיִתְנֶחָ֑םveyitnechamHC/Vtu3mstagged: so he may change his mind

Deuteronomy

one use
  • For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.

    Deuteronomy 32:36

    • יִתְנֶחָ֑םyitnechamverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will have compassion

Judges

three uses
  • Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who oppressed them and afflicted them.

    Judges 2:18

    • יִנָּחֵ֤םyinachemverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had compassion
  • And the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites, and said, “Today a tribe is cut off from Israel.

    Judges 21:6

    • וַיִּנָּֽחֲמוּ֙vaiyinachamuHc/VNw3mptagged: and they had compassion
  • The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a void in the tribes of Israel.

    Judges 21:15

    • נִחָ֖םnichamverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: it had compassion

Ruth

one use
  • “My lord,” she said, “may I continue to find favor in your eyes, for you have comforted and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your servant girls.”

    Ruth 2:13

    • נִֽחַמְתָּ֔נִיnichamtaniverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you have comforted me

1 Samuel

four uses
  • “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My instructions.” And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the LORD all that night.

    1 Samuel 15:11

    • נִחַ֗מְתִּיnichamtiverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I regret
  • Moreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.”

    1 Samuel 15:29

    • יִנָּחֵ֑םyinachemverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will regret
    • לְהִנָּחֵֽם׃lehinachempreposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to regret
  • And to the day of his death, Samuel never again visited Saul. Samuel mourned for Saul, and the LORD regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel.

    1 Samuel 15:35

    • נִחָ֔םnichamverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: he regretted

2 Samuel

five uses
  • And David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent some of his servants to console Hanun concerning his father. But when they arrived in the land of the Ammonites,

    2 Samuel 10:2

    • לְנַחֲמ֛וֹlenachamopreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to comfort him
  • the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, “Just because David has sent you comforters, do you really believe he is showing respect for your father? Has not David instead sent his servants to explore the city, spy it out, and overthrow it?”

    2 Samuel 10:3

    • מְנַֽחֲמִ֑יםmenachamimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: comforters
  • Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. So she gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved the child

    2 Samuel 12:24

    • וַיְנַחֵ֣םvaynachemHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he comforted
  • And King David longed to go to Absalom, for he had been consoled over Amnon’s death.

    2 Samuel 13:39

    • נִחַ֥םnichamverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was comforted
  • But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

    2 Samuel 24:16

    • וַיִּנָּ֤חֶםvaiyinachemHc/VNw3mstagged: and he relented

1 Chronicles

five uses
  • Their father Ephraim mourned for many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.

    1 Chronicles 7:22

    • לְנַחֲמֽוֹ׃lenachamopreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to comfort him
  • And David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent messengers to console Hanun concerning his father. But when David’s servants arrived in the land of the Ammonites to console him,

    1 Chronicles 19:2

    • לְנַחֲמ֣וֹlenachamopreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to comfort him
    • לְנַחֲמֽוֹ׃lenachamopreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to comfort him
  • the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun, “Just because David has sent you comforters, do you really believe he is showing respect for your father? Have not his servants come to you to explore the land, spy it out, and overthrow it?”

    1 Chronicles 19:3

    • מְנַחֲמִ֑יםmenachamimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: comforters
  • Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

    1 Chronicles 21:15

    • וַיִּנָּ֣חֶםvaiyinachemHc/VNw3mstagged: and he relented

Job

seven uses
  • Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.

    Job 2:11

    • וּֽלְנַחֲמֽוֹ׃ulenachamoconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and to comfort him
  • When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,

    Job 7:13

    • תְּנַחֲמֵ֣נִיtenachameniverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: it will comfort me
  • “I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.

    Job 16:2

    • מְנַחֲמֵ֖יmenachameiverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: comforters of
  • So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”

    Job 21:34

    • תְּנַחֲמ֣וּנִיtenachamuniverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: will you comfort me
  • I chose their course and presided as chief. So I dwelt as a king among his troops, as a comforter of the mourners.

    Job 29:25

    • יְנַחֵֽם׃yenachemverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: someone comforts
  • Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

    Job 42:6

    • וְנִחַ֑מְתִּיvenichamtiHc/VNq1cstagged: and I repent
  • All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.

    Job 42:11

    • וַיְנַחֲמ֣וּvaynachamuHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they comforted

Psalms

twelve uses
  • Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

    Psalms 23:4

    • יְנַֽחֲמֻֽנִי׃yenachamuniverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they comfort me
  • Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.

    Psalms 69:20

    • וְ֝לַמְנַחֲמִ֗יםvelamnachamimconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and for the comforters
  • You will increase my honor and comfort me once again.

    Psalms 71:21

    • תְּֽנַחֲמֵֽנִי׃tenachameniverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: may you comfort me
  • In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.

    Psalms 77:2

    • הִנָּחֵ֣םhinachemverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be comforted
  • Show me a sign of Your goodness, that my enemies may see and be ashamed; for You, O LORD, have helped me and comforted me.

    Psalms 86:17

    • וְנִחַמְתָּֽנִי׃venichamtaniconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and you have comforted me
  • Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.

    Psalms 90:13

    • וְ֝הִנָּחֵ֗םvehinachemconjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and have compassion
  • And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

    Psalms 106:45

    • וַ֝יִּנָּחֵ֗םvaiyinachemHc/VNw3mstagged: and he relented
  • The LORD has sworn and will not change His mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

    Psalms 110:4

    • יִנָּחֵ֗םyinachemverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will repent
  • I remember Your judgments of old, O LORD, and in them I find comfort.

    Psalms 119:52

    • וָֽאֶתְנֶחָֽם׃vaetnechamHc/Vtw1cstagged: and I have comforted myself
  • May Your loving devotion comfort me, I pray, according to Your promise to Your servant.

    Psalms 119:76

    • לְנַחֲמֵ֑נִיlenachamenipreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: to comfort me
  • My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?”

    Psalms 119:82

    • תְּֽנַחֲמֵֽנִי׃tenachameniverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: will you comfort me
  • For the LORD will vindicate His people and will have compassion on His servants.

    Psalms 135:14

    • יִתְנֶחָֽם׃yitnechamverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has compassion

Ecclesiastes

two uses
  • Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.

    Ecclesiastes 4:1

    • מְנַחֵ֔םmenachemverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: a comforter
    • מְנַחֵֽם׃menachemverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: a comforter

Isaiah

seventeen uses
  • Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: “Ah, I will be relieved of My foes and avenge Myself on My enemies.

    Isaiah 1:24

    • אֶנָּחֵ֣םʾenachemverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will ease myself
  • In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.

    Isaiah 12:1

    • וּֽתְנַחֲמֵֽנִי׃utenachameniHC/Vpu2ms/Sp1bstagged: and may you comfort me
  • Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

    Isaiah 22:4

    • לְנַֽחֲמֵ֔נִיlenachamenipreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: to comfort me
  • “Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.

    Isaiah 40:1

    • נַחֲמ֥וּnachamuverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: comfort
    • נַחֲמ֖וּnachamuverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: comfort
  • Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.

    Isaiah 49:13

    • נִחַ֤םnichamverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has comforted
  • For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.

    Isaiah 51:3

    • נִחַ֨םnichamverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will comfort
    • נִחַם֙nichamverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will comfort
  • “I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?

    Isaiah 51:12

    • מְנַחֶמְכֶ֑םmenachemkhemverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: comforts you
  • These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you?

    Isaiah 51:19

    • אֲנַחֲמֵֽךְ׃ʾanachamekhverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: do I comfort you
  • Break forth in joy, sing together, O ruins of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem.

    Isaiah 52:9

    • נִחַ֤םnichamverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has comforted
  • “O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.

    Isaiah 54:11

    • נֻחָ֑מָהnuchamahverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has been comforted
  • Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley; indeed, they are your lot. Even to them you have poured out a drink offering and offered a grain offering. Should I relent because of these?

    Isaiah 57:6

    • אֶנָּחֵֽם׃ʾenachemverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: will I relent
  • to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,

    Isaiah 61:2

    • לְנַחֵ֖םlenachempreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to comfort
  • As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”

    Isaiah 66:13

    • תְּנַחֲמֶ֑נּוּtenachamenuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: she comforts him
    • אֲנַ֣חֶמְכֶ֔םʾanachemkhemverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: I will comfort you
    • תְּנֻחָֽמוּ׃tenuchamuverb · intensive passive (pual), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will be comforted

Jeremiah

fourteen uses
  • Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”

    Jeremiah 4:28

    • נִחַ֖מְתִּיnichamtiverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have repented
  • I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.

    Jeremiah 8:6

    • נִחָם֙nichamverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: relents
  • You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.

    Jeremiah 15:6

    • הִנָּחֵֽם׃hinachemverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to relent
  • No food will be offered to comfort those who mourn the dead; not even a cup of consolation will be given for the loss of a father or mother.

    Jeremiah 16:7

    • לְנַחֲמ֣וֹlenachamopreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to comfort him
  • But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.

    Jeremiah 18:8

    • וְנִֽחַמְתִּי֙venichamtiHc/VNq1cstagged: and I will relent
  • and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.

    Jeremiah 18:10

    • וְנִֽחַמְתִּי֙venichamtiHc/VNq1cstagged: and I will relent
  • May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,

    Jeremiah 20:16

    • נִחָ֑םnichamverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had compassion
  • Perhaps they will listen and turn—each from his evil way of life—so that I may relent of the disaster I am planning to bring upon them because of the evil of their deeds.

    Jeremiah 26:3

    • וְנִחַמְתִּ֣יvenichamtiHc/VNq1cstagged: and I will repent
  • So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, so that He might relent of the disaster He has pronounced against you.

    Jeremiah 26:13

    • וְיִנָּחֵ֣םveyinachemHC/VNu3mstagged: so he may repent
  • Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did Hezekiah not fear the LORD and seek His favor, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster He had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great harm on ourselves!”

    Jeremiah 26:19

    • וַיִּנָּ֣חֶםvaiyinachemHc/VNw3mstagged: and he repented
  • Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow.

    Jeremiah 31:13

    • וְנִ֣חַמְתִּ֔יםvenichamtimHc/Vpq1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I will comfort them
  • This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

    Jeremiah 31:15

    • לְהִנָּחֵ֥םlehinachempreposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be comforted
  • After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’

    Jeremiah 31:19

    • נִחַ֔מְתִּיnichamtiverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I repented
  • ‘If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you, for I will relent of the disaster I have brought upon you.

    Jeremiah 42:10

    • נִחַ֙מְתִּי֙nichamtiverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I am grieved

Lamentations

six uses
  • She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

    Lamentations 1:2

    • מְנַחֵ֖םmenachemverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: a comforter
  • Her uncleanness stains her skirts; she did not consider her end. Her downfall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. Look, O LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!

    Lamentations 1:9

    • מְנַחֵ֖םmenachemverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: a comforter
  • For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.

    Lamentations 1:16

    • מְנַחֵ֖םmenachemverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: a comforter
  • Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed against Jacob that his neighbors become his foes. Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

    Lamentations 1:17

    • מְנַחֵם֙menachemverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: a comforter
  • People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that You have caused it. May You bring the day You have announced, so that they may become like me.

    Lamentations 1:21

    • מְנַחֵם֙menachemverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: a comforter
  • What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?

    Lamentations 2:13

    • וַאֲנַֽחֲמֵ֔ךְvaanachamekhHC/Vpu1cs/Sp2fstagged: so I may comfort you

Ezekiel

seven uses
  • And when My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath against them, I will be appeased. And when I have spent My wrath on them, they will know that I, the LORD, in My zeal have spoken.

    Ezekiel 5:13

    • וְהִנֶּחָ֑מְתִּיvehinechametiHc/Vtq1cstagged: and I will gain relief
  • Yet, behold, some survivors will be left in it—sons and daughters who will be brought out. They will come out to you, and when you see their conduct and actions, you will be comforted regarding the disaster I have brought upon Jerusalem—all that I have brought upon it.

    Ezekiel 14:22

    • וְנִחַמְתֶּ֗םvenichamtemHc/VNq2mptagged: and you will be comforted
  • They will bring you consolation when you see their conduct and actions, and you will know that it was not without cause that I have done all these things within it,’ declares the Lord GOD.”

    Ezekiel 14:23

    • וְנִחֲמ֣וּvenichamuHc/Vpq3cptagged: and they will comfort
  • So you will bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you did to comfort them.

    Ezekiel 16:54

    • בְּנַחֲמֵ֖ךְbenachamekhpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: when comfort you
  • I, the LORD, have spoken; the time is coming, and I will act. I will not refrain or show pity, nor will I relent. I will judge you according to your ways and deeds,’ declares the Lord GOD.”

    Ezekiel 24:14

    • אֶנָּחֵ֑םʾenachemverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will have pity
  • I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were consoled in the earth below.

    Ezekiel 31:16

    • וַיִּנָּ֨חֲמ֜וּvaiyinachamuHc/VNw3mptagged: and they were comforted
  • Pharaoh will see them and be comforted over all his multitude—Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, declares the Lord GOD.

    Ezekiel 32:31

    • וְנִחַ֖םvenichamHc/VNq3mstagged: and he will be comforted

Joel

two uses
  • So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.

    Joel 2:13

    • וְנִחָ֖םvenichamconjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and relenting
  • Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him—grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.

    Joel 2:14

    • וְנִחָ֑םvenichamHc/VNq3mstagged: and he will relent

Amos

two uses
  • So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.

    Amos 7:3

    • נִחַ֥םnichamverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he relented
  • So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.

    Amos 7:6

    • נִחַ֥םnichamverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he relented

Jonah

three uses
  • Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”

    Jonah 3:9

    • וְנִחַ֖םvenichamHc/VNq3mstagged: and he will relent
  • When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.

    Jonah 3:10

    • וַיִּנָּ֣חֶםvaiyinachemHc/VNw3mstagged: and he relented
  • So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.

    Jonah 4:2

    • וְנִחָ֖םvenichamconjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and relents

Nahum

one use
  • Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?”

    Nahum 3:7

    • מְנַחֲמִ֖יםmenachamimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: comforters

Zechariah

three uses
  • Proclaim further that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘My cities will again overflow with prosperity; the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.’”

    Zechariah 1:17

    • וְנִחַ֨םvenichamHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will comfort
  • For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Just as I resolved to bring disaster upon you when your fathers provoked Me to anger, and I did not relent,” says the LORD of Hosts,

    Zechariah 8:14

    • נִחָֽמְתִּי׃nichametiverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I relented
  • For idols speak deceit and diviners see illusions; they tell false dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep, oppressed for lack of a shepherd.

    Zechariah 10:2

    • יְנַֽחֵמ֑וּןyenachemunverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they comfort

The letters

Gematria 98· 658 mispar gadol

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

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