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  #5162 נָחַם nacham {naw-kham'}

 a primitive root; TWOT - 1344; v

—Hebrew Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar)


 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

—Brown-Driver-Briggs (Old Testament Hebrew-English Lexicon)

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).

—Strong's (Hebrew & Chaldee Dictionary of the Old Testament)

#5162.
נָחַם
nacham (636d); a prim. root; to be sorry, console oneself:—
NASB - am sorry(1), appeased(1), become a consolation(1), change mind(6), change minds(1), changed mind(4), comfort(30), comforted(18), comforter(2), comforters(4), comforts(2), console(3), consolers(1), consoling(1), give rest(1), have compassion(2), moved to pity(1), regret(1), regretted(1), relent(5), relented(4), relenting(3), relents(1), relieved(1), repent(3), repented(2), sorry(6), think better(1), when the time of mourning was ended(2).

—NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries

 AV - comfort 57, repent 41, comforter 9, ease 1; 108

comfort
Genesis 5:29; 27:42; 37:35. 2 Samuel 10:2. 1 Chronicles 7:22; 19:2, 2. Job 2:11; 7:13; 21:34. Psalms 23:4; 71:21; 119:76, 82. Isaiah 22:4; 40:1, 1; 51:3, 3, 19; 57:6; 61:2; 66:13. Jeremiah 16:7; 31:13. Lamentations 1:2, 17, 21; 2:13. Ezekiel 14:23; 16:54. Zechariah 1:17; 10:2.

comforted
Genesis 24:67; 37:35; 38:12; 50:21. Ruth 2:13. 2 Samuel 12:24; 13:39. Job 42:11. Psalms 77:2; 86:17; 119:52. Isaiah 49:13; 52:9; 54:11; 66:13. Jeremiah 31:15. Ezekiel 5:13; 14:22; 31:16; 32:31.

comfortedst
Isaiah 12:1.

comforter
Ecclesiastes 4:1, 1. Lamentations 1:9, 16.

comforters
2 Samuel 10:3. 1 Chronicles 19:3. Job 16:2. Psalms 69:20. Nahum 3:7.

comforteth
Job 29:25. Isaiah 51:12; 66:13.

ease
Isaiah 1:24.

repent
Exodus 13:17; 32:12. Numbers 23:19. Deuteronomy 32:36. 1 Samuel 15:29, 29. Job 42:6. Psalms 90:13; 110:4; 135:14. Jeremiah 4:28; 18:8, 10; 26:3, 13; 42:10. Ezekiel 24:14. Joel 2:14. Jonah 3:9.

repented
Genesis 6:6. Exodus 32:14. Judges 2:18; 21:6, 15. 1 Samuel 15:35. 2 Samuel 24:16. 1 Chronicles 21:15. Psalms 106:45. Jeremiah 8:6; 20:16; 26:19; 31:19. Amos 7:3, 6. Jonah 3:10. Zechariah 8:14.

repentest
Jonah 4:2.