Occurrences
Nâcham occurs 108 times in 100 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (8), Exodus (3), Numbers (1), Deuteronomy (1), Judges (3), Ruth (1), 1 Samuel (3), 2 Samuel (5), 1 Chronicles (4), Job (7), Psalms (12), Ecclesiastes (1), Isaiah (13), Jeremiah (14), Lamentations (6), Ezekiel (7), Joel (2), Amos (2), Jonah (3), Nahum (1), Zechariah (3)
- Genesis 5:29 — And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort (יְנַחֲמֵ֤נוּ) us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
- Genesis 6:6 — And it repented (וַיִּנָּ֣חֶם) 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 (נִחַ֖מְתִּי) 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 (וַיִּנָּחֵ֥ם) 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 (מִתְנַחֵ֥ם), purposing to kill thee.
- Genesis 37:35 — And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort (לְנַחֲמ֗וֹ) 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 — And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted (לְהִתְנַחֵ֔ם); 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 (וַיִּנָּ֣חֶם), 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 (וַיְנַחֵ֣ם) 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 (יִנָּחֵ֥ם) 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 (וְהִנָּחֵ֥ם) of this evil against thy people.
- Exodus 32:14 — And the LORD repented (וַיִּנָּ֖חֶם) 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 (וְיִתְנֶחָ֑ם): 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 (יִתְנֶחָ֑ם) 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 (יִנָּחֵ֤ם) 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 (וַיִּנָּֽחֲמוּ֙) 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 (נִחָ֖ם) 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 (נִֽחַמְתָּ֔נִי) 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 (נִחַ֗מְתִּי) 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 (יִנָּחֵ֑ם): for he is not a man, that he should repent.
- 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 (לְהִנָּחֵֽם).
- 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 (נִחָ֔ם) 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 (לְנַחֲמ֛וֹ) 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 (מְנַֽחֲמִ֑ים) 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 (וַיְנַחֵ֣ם) 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 (נִחַ֥ם) 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 (וַיִּנָּ֤חֶם) 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 — And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort (לְנַחֲמֽוֹ) him.
- 1 Chronicles 19:2 — 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 (לְנַחֲמ֣וֹ) 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 19:2 — 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 (לְנַחֲמֽוֹ) him.
- 1 Chronicles 19:3 — But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters (מְנַחֲמִ֑ים) 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 — And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him (וַיִּנָּ֣חֶם) 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 — 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 (וּֽלְנַחֲמֽוֹ) him.
- Job 7:13 — When I say, My bed shall comfort (תְּנַחֲמֵ֣נִי) me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
- Job 16:2 — I have heard many such things: miserable comforters (מְנַחֲמֵ֖י) are ye all.
- Job 21:34 — How then comfort (תְּנַחֲמ֣וּנִי) ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
- Job 29:25 — I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth (יְנַחֵֽם) the mourners.
- Job 42:6 — Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent (וְנִחַ֑מְתִּי) in dust and ashes.
- Job 42:11 — 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 (וַיְנַחֲמ֣וּ) 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 — 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 (יְנַֽחֲמֻֽנִי) me.
- Psalms 69:20 — 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 (וְ֝לַמְנַחֲמִ֗ים), but I found none.
- Psalms 71:21 — Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort (תְּֽנַחֲמֵֽנִי) me on every side.
- 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 (הִנָּחֵ֣ם).
- Psalms 86:17 — 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 (וְנִחַמְתָּֽנִי) me.
- Psalms 90:13 — Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent (וְ֝הִנָּחֵ֗ם) thee concerning thy servants.
- Psalms 106:45 — And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented (וַ֝יִּנָּחֵ֗ם) according to the multitude of his mercies.
- Psalms 110:4 — The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent (יִנָּחֵ֗ם), Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
- Psalms 119:52 — I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself (וָֽאֶתְנֶחָֽם).
- Psalms 119:76 — Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort (לְנַחֲמֵ֑נִי), according to thy word unto thy servant.
- Psalms 119:82 — Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort (תְּֽנַחֲמֵֽנִי) me?