{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H5162",
  "lemma": "נָחַם",
  "transliteration": "nâcham",
  "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)…",
  "kjv": "comfort (self), ease (one's self), repent(-er,-ing, self).",
  "occurrences": 108,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[נחם] vb. Niph. be sorry, console oneself, etc.",
    "Niph.",
    "1. be sorry, moved to pity, have compassion, for others",
    "2. be sorry, rue, suffer grief, repent, of one’s own doings",
    "3. comfort oneself, be comforted",
    "4. comfort oneself, ease oneself, by taking vengeance",
    "Piel—comfort, console",
    "Pual; be comforted, consoled",
    "Hithpa.—",
    "1. be sorry, have compassion",
    "2. rue, repent of",
    "3. comfort oneself, be comforted",
    "4. ease oneself, by taking vengeance"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 5:29",
      "text": "He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/5?v=29"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 6:6",
      "text": "The LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 6:7",
      "text": "The LORD said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 24:67",
      "text": "Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=67"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 27:42",
      "text": "The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=42"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 37:35",
      "text": "All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=35"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 38:12",
      "text": "After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/38?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 50:21",
      "text": "Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/50?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 13:17",
      "text": "When Pharaoh had let the people go, God didn’t lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/13?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 32:12",
      "text": "Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/32?v=12"
    }
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