H5162 נָחַם

נָחַם (nâcham), Strong’s 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)… KJV…

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nâcham — 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).

Occurs 108 times.

Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [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

Where it occurs
- Genesis 5:29 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/5?v=29) — He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground…
- Genesis 6:6 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=6) — The LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
- Genesis 6:7 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=7) — The LORD said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping…
- Genesis 24:67 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=67) — Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was…
- Genesis 27:42 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=42) — The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him…
- Genesis 37:35 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=35) — 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…
- Genesis 38:12 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/38?v=12) — After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to…
- Genesis 50:21 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/50?v=21) — Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to…
- Exodus 13:17 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/13?v=17) — When Pharaoh had let the people go, God didn’t lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was…
- Exodus 32:12 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/32?v=12) — Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume…