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Words
נָחַם H5162
- Home gloss
- comfort (piel)
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- comfort
- Note
- "This one shall comfort us" (5:29); "Comfort, comfort my people" (Isa 40:1); The niphal (6:6–7, Adonai "was sorry") is to be fixed at Gen 6; see the report
- Rulings
- 2, 20, 101
Occurrences (3)
- 5:29 And he called his name Noah, saying, "This one shall comfort us from our deed and from the pain of our hands, from the ground that cursed."
- 6:6 And was sorry that he had made the human in the land, and he was pained to his heart.
- 6:7 And said, "I will wipe the human whom I created from on the face of the ground, from human to beast, to creeper and to the flyers of the skies; for I am sorry that I made them."