Nacham — To Comfort, Relent
One root spanning comfort and repentance — the word in 'Comfort ye, comfort ye my people' and in 'it repented the LORD.' The name Nehemiah ('YHWH comforts') carries it.
Pronunciation: naw-kham'
Hebrew · Strong's H5162 · 100 occurrences in the Old Testament (KJV)
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)
KJV translations: comfort (self), ease (one's self), repent(-er,-ing, self).
Nacham in the Bible — example verses
“And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.”Genesis 5:29 (KJV)
“And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.”Genesis 6:6 (KJV)
“And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.”Genesis 6:7 (KJV)
“And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.”Genesis 24:67 (KJV)
“And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.”Genesis 27:42 (KJV)
“And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.”Genesis 37:35 (KJV)
“And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.”Genesis 38:12 (KJV)
“Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.”Genesis 50:21 (KJV)
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