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Strong's H5162 נָחַם (nacham)

Nacham means “repent” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G5162 — trophos (“nurse”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H5162
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 100
Books 21

Strong's H5162 Quick Answer

Strong's H5162 נָחַם (nacham) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. nacham (naw-kham') v. 1. (properly) to sigh, i.e. breathe strongly 2. (by implication) to be sorry It has 100 linked Bible usages across 21 books. Visible English usage signals include comforted, comfort, pity, avenge, and sorry. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
nacham (naw-kham') v. 1. (properly) to sigh, i.e. breathe strongly 2. (by implication) to be sorry
Usage
100 linked usages
Books
21 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
comforted, comfort, pity, avenge, and sorry

Meaning and Definition

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).

Original Word
נָחַם
Transliteration
nacham
Derivation
Root: נחם
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H5162. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

to be sorry: comfort

Usage: : comfort 1) to be sorry, console oneself, repent, regret, comfort, be comforted 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to be sorry, be moved to pity, have compassion 1a2) to be sorry, rue, suffer grief, repent 1a3) to comfort oneself, be comforted 1a4) to comfort oneself, ease oneself 1b) (Piel) to comfort, console 1c) (Pual) to be comforted, be consoled 1d) (Hithpael) 1d1) to be sorry, have compassion 1d2) to rue, repent of 1d3) to comfort oneself, be comforted 1d4) to ease oneself Also means: na.cham (נָחַם ": relent" H5162H)

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How Strong's H5162 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render nacham, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

comforted Genesis 24:67 comfort Genesis 5:29 avenge Isaiah 1:24 pity Psalms 69:20 sigh Lamentations 1:21 sorry Isaiah 51:19

How Strong's H5162 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 100 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H5162 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H5162 in the Old Testament

100 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 5:29 KJV

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 KJV

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

Genesis 6:7 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.

Usage Excerpts

First 100 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5162.

Genesis 5:29 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Genesis 6:7 Old Testament, 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 24:67 Old Testament, 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 27:42 Old Testament, 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 37:35 Old Testament, 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 38:12 Old Testament, 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 50:21 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
Numbers 23:19 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
Ruth 2:13 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
And David comforted Bathsheba 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 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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.
1 Chronicles 7:22 Old Testament, KJV
And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
1 Chronicles 19:2 Old Testament, KJV
And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
1 Chronicles 19:3 Old Testament, KJV
But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?
1 Chronicles 21:15 Old Testament, KJV
And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Job 2:11 Old Testament, KJV
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
Job 7:13 Old Testament, KJV
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints;
Job 16:2 Old Testament, KJV
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
Job 21:34 Old Testament, KJV
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
Job 29:25 Old Testament, KJV
I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
Job 42:6 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Job 42:11 Old Testament, KJV
Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
Psalms 23:4 Old Testament, KJV
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Psalms 69:20 Old Testament, KJV
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
Psalms 71:21 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
Psalms 77:2 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Psalms 86:17 Old Testament, KJV
Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.
Psalms 90:13 Old Testament, KJV
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
Psalms 106:45 Old Testament, KJV
And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
Psalms 110:4 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
Psalms 119:52 Old Testament, KJV
I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.
Psalms 119:76 Old Testament, KJV
Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.
Psalms 119:82 Old Testament, KJV
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
Psalms 135:14 Old Testament, KJV
For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.
Ecclesiastes 4:1 Old Testament, KJV
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 on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Isaiah 1:24 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore saith the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
Isaiah 12:1 Old Testament, KJV
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 22:4 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
Isaiah 40:1 Old Testament, KJV
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Isaiah 49:13 Old Testament, KJV
Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
Isaiah 51:3 Old Testament, KJV
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; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Isaiah 51:12 Old Testament, KJV
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 51:19 Old Testament, KJV
These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
Isaiah 52:9 Old Testament, KJV
Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
Isaiah 54:11 Old Testament, KJV
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
Isaiah 57:6 Old Testament, KJV
Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?
Isaiah 61:2 Old Testament, KJV
To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
Isaiah 66:13 Old Testament, KJV
As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 4:28 Old Testament, KJV
For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
Jeremiah 8:6 Old Testament, KJV
I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
Jeremiah 15:6 Old Testament, KJV
Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
Jeremiah 16:7 Old Testament, KJV
Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
Jeremiah 18:8 Old Testament, KJV
If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Jeremiah 18:10 Old Testament, KJV
If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
Jeremiah 20:16 Old Testament, KJV
And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
Jeremiah 26:3 Old Testament, KJV
If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.
Jeremiah 26:13 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
Jeremiah 26:19 Old Testament, KJV
Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.
Jeremiah 31:13 Old Testament, KJV
Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
Jeremiah 31:15 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
Jeremiah 31:19 Old Testament, KJV
Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
Jeremiah 42:10 Old Testament, KJV
If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.
Lamentations 1:2 Old Testament, KJV
She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
Lamentations 1:9 Old Testament, KJV
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 the enemy hath magnified himself.
Lamentations 1:16 Old Testament, KJV
For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
Lamentations 1:17 Old Testament, KJV
Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.
Lamentations 1:21 Old Testament, KJV
They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.
Lamentations 2:13 Old Testament, KJV
What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
Ezekiel 5:13 Old Testament, KJV
Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.
Ezekiel 14:22 Old Testament, KJV
Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it.
Ezekiel 14:23 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 16:54 Old Testament, KJV
That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.
Ezekiel 24:14 Old Testament, KJV
I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 31:16 Old Testament, KJV
I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
Ezekiel 32:31 Old Testament, KJV
Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
Joel 2:13 Old Testament, KJV
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 repenteth him of the evil.
Joel 2:14 Old Testament, KJV
Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
Amos 7:3 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
Amos 7:6 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
Jonah 3:9 Old Testament, KJV
Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
Jonah 3:10 Old Testament, KJV
And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
Jonah 4:2 Old Testament, KJV
And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
Nahum 3:7 Old Testament, KJV
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?
Zechariah 1:17 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Zechariah 8:14 Old Testament, KJV
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:
Zechariah 10:2 Old Testament, KJV
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.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5162, grouped by book.

Genesis 8 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 3 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Old Testament
Judges 3 usages, Old Testament
Ruth 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Samuel 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 5 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 4 usages, Old Testament
Job 7 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 12 usages, Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 13 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 14 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 6 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 7 usages, Old Testament
Joel 2 usages, Old Testament
Amos 2 usages, Old Testament
Jonah 3 usages, Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Old Testament
Zechariah 3 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H5162 FAQ

What does nacham (נָחַם) mean?

Nacham (Strong's H5162) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "repent". nacham (naw-kham') v. 1. (properly) to sigh, i.e. breathe strongly 2. (by implication) to be sorry

How many times is nacham (נָחַם) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 100 linked usages for Strong's H5162 across 21 books.

Where can I study nacham (נָחַם) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5162 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate nacham (נָחַם)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as comforted, comfort, pity, avenge, sorry, and sigh. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.