H5162: נָחַם

Extended definition

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H5162 is translated

• me ×10
• him ×8
• he relented ×7
• a comforter ×7
• you ×5
• comforters ×4
• he was comforted ×3
• comfort ×3
• he will comfort ×3
• he regretted ×2
• i regret ×2
• be comforted ×2

Bible verses with H5162 (nâcham)

Nâcham appears in 100 verses; the first 25 are shown below.

• Genesis 5:29

  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 6:6

  And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

• Genesis 6:7

  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 24:67

  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 27:42

  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 37:35

  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 38:12

  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 50:21

  Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

• Exodus 13:17

  And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:

• Exodus 32:12

  Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.

• Exodus 32:14

  And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

• Numbers 23:19

  God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

• Deuteronomy 32:36

  For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.

• Judges 2:18

  And when the Lord raised them up judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the Lord because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.

• Judges 21:6

  And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

• Judges 21:15

  And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

• Ruth 2:13

  Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.

• 1 Samuel 15:11

  It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the Lord all night.

• 1 Samuel 15:29

  And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.

• 1 Samuel 15:35

  And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

• 2 Samuel 10:2

  Then said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.

• 2 Samuel 10:3

  And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?

• 2 Samuel 12:24

  And David comforted Bath–sheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the Lord loved him.

• 2 Samuel 13:39

  And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

• 2 Samuel 24:16

  And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

Words derived from H5162