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:
Amos 7:6: "The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be,"
Jonah 3:9: "can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger,"
Jonah 3:10: "from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that"
Jonah 4:2: "slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil."
Nahum 3:7: "will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters"
Zechariah 1:17: "shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet"
Zechariah 8:14: "provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:"
Zechariah 10:2: "and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way"
