נָחַם nacham

Hebrew word for “to be sorry” · Strong’s H5162 · used 108 times in 100 verses

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Meaning

: comfort; 1) to be sorry, console oneself, repent, regret, comfort, be comforted;

Senses in the lexicon

• to be sorry: comfort (73)
• to be sorry: relent (35)

How it is translated

Glosses given for nacham in context, with how often each is used:

• comfort 13
• comforted 10
• will comfort 8
• relented 8
• comforter 7
• comforters 5
• had compassion 4
• will relent 4
• will be comforted 3
• regret 3
• have comforted 2
• will you comfort 2

Where it is used

Also in 9 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Lamentations 1 (5), 1 Samuel 15 (3), Psalms 119 (3), Isaiah 51 (3), Jeremiah 26 (3), Jeremiah 31 (3), Genesis 6 (2), Exodus 32 (2), Judges 21 (2), 2 Samuel 10 (2)

Forms

• וינחם 12
• נחם 11
• מנחם 7
• לנחמו 6
• ונחם 6
• נחמתי 6
• ינחם 5
• ונחמתי 4
• וינחמו 3
• מנחמים 3

Words used with it

Words that share verses with nacham more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• רַע ra “bad” 19
• שׁוּב shuv “to return” 17
• דָבַר davar “to speak” 13
• רָאָה raah “to see” 12
• נוּד nud “to wander” 5
• אַיִן ayin “nothing” 9
• חָנוּן chanun “Hanun” 4
• יְרוּשָׁלִַם yerushalaim “Jerusalem” 8
• דֶּרֶךְ derekh “way” 8
• עֶבֶד eved “servant/slave” 8
• שָׁמַע shama “to hear” 9
• הָ ha “her” 7

Key verses

The verses using nacham that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• Job 42:6 — Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
• Psalms 77:2 — In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
• Ecclesiastes 4:1 — So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and…
• Isaiah 12:1 — And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
• Isaiah 51:3 — For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD;…
• Isaiah 51:12 — I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;
• Isaiah 54:11 — O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
• Lamentations 1:9 — Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for…
• 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…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.