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נָחַם H5162
nâcham — comfort (self), ease (one's self), repent(-er,-ing, self).. Appears in 100 verses. Full definition →
1 Chronicles 7:22
And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came 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 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 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 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 him.
Job 7:13
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
Job 16:2
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
Job 21:34
How then comfort 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 the mourners.
Job 42:6
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent 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 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 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, but I found none.
Psalms 71:21
Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort 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.
Psalms 86:17
Show me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it , and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast helped me, and comforted me.
Psalms 90:13
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
Psalms 106:45
And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
Psalms 110:4
The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
Psalms 119:52
I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.
Psalms 119:76
Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.
Psalms 119:82
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
Psalms 135:14
For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
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
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: