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Hebrew-Aramaic
H5162

Original: נחם
Transliteration: nacham (nâcham)
Phonetic: naw-kham'
BDB Definition:
  1. to be sorry, console oneself, repent, regret, comfort, be comforted
    1. (Niphal)
      1. to be sorry, be moved to pity, have compassion
      2. to be sorry, rue, suffer grief, repent
      3. to comfort oneself, be comforted
      4. to comfort oneself, ease oneself
    2. (Piel) to comfort, console
    3. (Pual) to be comforted, be consoled
    4. (Hithpael)
      1. to be sorry, have compassion
      2. to rue, repent of
      3. to comfort oneself, be comforted
      4. to ease oneself
Origin: a primitive root
TWOT entry: 1344
Part(s) of speech: Verb
Strong's Definition: A primitive root; properly to sigh, that is, breathe strongly; by implication to be sorry, that is, (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue ; or (unfavorably) to avenge (oneself): - comfort (self), ease [one's self], repent (-er, -ing, self).
Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:
Occurrences of "Repented"
And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
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.
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.(e)
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.
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.(d)
The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord .
The Lord repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord God .
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.

Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.


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