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H5162Hebrew

נָחַם

Definition and meaning

nacham (naw-kham') v. 1. (properly) to sigh, i.e. breathe strongly 2. (by implication) to be sorry 3. (hence, in a favorable sense) to pity, console 4. (reflexively) to rue 5. (hence, unfavorably) to avenge (oneself) [a primitive root] KJV: comfort (self), ease (one's self), repent(-er,-ing, self).

Tagged KJV passages

100 matching verses - 108.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

Nahum 3:7

And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?

Matched English: comfortersZechariah 1:17

Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.

Matched English: comfortZechariah 8:14

For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:

Matched English: repentedZechariah 10:2

For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.

Matched English: comfort