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 39Old Testament books
- 90spellings
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
The word stands in twenty-one of the 39 Old Testament books.
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.
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.”
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- וַיִּנָּֽחֲמוּ֙vaiyinachamuHc/VNw3mptagged: and they had compassion
The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a void in the tribes of Israel.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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,
- 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?”
- 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
- וַיְנַחֵ֣םvaynachemHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he comforted
And King David longed to go to Absalom, for he had been consoled over Amnon’s death.
- 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.
- וַיִּנָּ֤חֶםvaiyinachemHc/VNw3mstagged: and he relented
1 Chronicles
five uses
Their father Ephraim mourned for many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.
- 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,
- 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?”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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,
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- יְנַחֵֽם׃yenachemverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: someone comforts
Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- וָֽאֶתְנֶחָֽם׃vaetnechamHc/Vtw1cstagged: and I have comforted myself
May Your loving devotion comfort me, I pray, according to Your promise to Your servant.
- 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?”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- לְנַֽחֲמֵ֔נִיlenachamenipreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: to comfort me
“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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,
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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,
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!”
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.’
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- וְנִחֲמ֣וּvenichamuHc/Vpq3cptagged: and they will comfort
So you will bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you did to comfort them.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- וְנִחָ֑םvenichamHc/VNq3mstagged: and he will relent
Amos
two uses
So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?”
- 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.’”
- 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,
- 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.
- 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
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
