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:
Psalms 135:14: "the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants."
Ecclesiastes 4:1: "the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power;"
Ecclesiastes 4:1: "and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter."
Isaiah 1:24: "the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:"
Isaiah 12:1: "thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst"
Isaiah 22:4: "me; I will weep bitterly, labor not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter"
Isaiah 40:1: " Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God."
Isaiah 40:1: "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God."
Isaiah 49:13: "O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted."
Isaiah 51:3: "For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make"
Isaiah 51:3: "the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness"
Isaiah 51:12: "I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man"
Isaiah 51:19: "and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort"
Isaiah 52:9: "of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem."
Isaiah 54:11: "O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones"
Isaiah 57:6: "a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?"
Isaiah 61:2: "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"
Isaiah 66:13: "comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem."
Isaiah 66:13: "so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem."
Jeremiah 4:28: "because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back"
Jeremiah 8:6: "aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What"
Jeremiah 15:6: "against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting."
Jeremiah 16:7: "shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup"
Jeremiah 18:8: "I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that"
Jeremiah 18:10: "that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said"
Jeremiah 20:16: "which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning,"
Jeremiah 26:3: "every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which"
Jeremiah 26:13: "of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced"
Jeremiah 26:19: "the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of"
Jeremiah 31:13: "for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow."
Jeremiah 31:15: "for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not."
Jeremiah 31:19: "Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon"
Jeremiah 42:10: "and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent me of the evil that"
Lamentations 1:2: "her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends"
Lamentations 1:9: "therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction:"
Lamentations 1:16: "runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from"
Lamentations 1:17: "spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries"
Lamentations 1:21: "I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble;"
Lamentations 2:13: "of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for"
Ezekiel 5:13: "be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD"
Ezekiel 14:22: "their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought"
Ezekiel 14:23: " And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that"
Ezekiel 16:54: "in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort"
Ezekiel 24:14: "neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith"
Ezekiel 31:16: "and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth."
Ezekiel 32:31: "Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all"
Joel 2:13: "to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil."
Joel 2:14: "Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering"
Amos 7:3: "The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD."
