Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H5162: נָחַם (nâcham) Definition

Strong's number
H5162
Lemma
נָחַם
Transliteration
nâcham
Pronunciation
naw-kham'
Strong's definition
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). a primitive root;

100 instances of the word נָחַם nâcham (H5162)


  • Jeremiah 42:10 - If ye will still abide in this land then will I build you and not pull you down and I will plant you and not pluck you up for I repent me of the evil that I have done

  • Job 2:11 - heard three friends Now when Job's of all this evil that was come that was come every one from his own place Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite for they had made an appointment together that was come to mourn with him and to comfort

  • Job 7:13 - When I say shall comfort My bed shall ease my complaint me my couch

  • Job 16:2 - I have heard many such things comforters miserable

  • Job 21:34 - How then comfort ye me in vain seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood

  • Job 29:25 - I chose out their way and sat chief and dwelt as a king in the army the mourners as one that comforteth

  • Job 42:6 - Wherefore I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes

  • Job 42:11 - Then came there unto him all his brethren and all his sisters and all they that had been of his acquaintance before and did eat bread with him in his house and they bemoaned him and comforted him over all the evil Then came that the LORD also gave and every one piece of money him a and every one an earring of gold him a

  • Joel 2:13 - And rend your heart and not your garments and turn unto the LORD your God for he is gracious and merciful slow 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 behind a blessing him even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God

  • Jonah 3:9 - Who can tell and turn away and repent if God and turn away from his fierce anger that we perish

  • Jonah 3:10 - saw And God their works that they turned way from their evil repented And God from their evil that he had said that he would do that he would do

  • Jonah 4:2 - And he prayed thee O LORD and said I pray thee O LORD was not this my saying when I was yet in my country before Therefore I fled unto Tarshish for I knew God that thou art a gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repentest thee of the evil

  • Judges 2:18 - raised And when the LORD of the judge And when the LORD of the judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge for it repented And when the LORD of their groanings because by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed

  • Judges 21:6 - repented And the children from Israel them for Benjamin their brother and said cut off this day tribe There is one from Israel

  • Judges 21:15 - And the people repented them for Benjamin had made because that the LORD a breach in the tribes of Israel

  • Lamentations 1:2 - She weepeth She weepeth in the night and her tears are on her cheeks she hath none to comfort among all her lovers her all her friends have dealt treacherously with her they are become her enemies

  • Lamentations 1:9 - Her filthiness is in her skirts she remembereth not her last end therefore she came down wonderfully she had no comforter behold O LORD my affliction hath magnified for the enemy

  • Lamentations 1:16 - For these things I weep mine eye mine eye runneth down with water is far because the comforter that should relieve my soul from me my children are desolate prevailed because the enemy

  • Lamentations 1:17 - spreadeth forth Zion her hands and there is none to comfort hath commanded her the LORD concerning Jacob should be round about that his adversaries him Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman