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# נַחַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5163

**Naham** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Naham [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5163/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נַ֫חַם: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5163/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (comfort), a chieftain of Judah 1 Ch 4:19; 𝔊 Ναχεθ, A Ναχεμ, 𝔊L Ναουμ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Naham (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 4:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.19/#tree)

וּבְנֵי֙ אֵ֣שֶׁת הֽוֹדִיָּ֔ה אֲח֣וֹת נַ֔חַם אֲבִ֥י קְעִילָ֖ה הַגַּרְמִ֑י וְאֶשְׁתְּמֹ֖עַ הַמַּעֲכָתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.the.wife of.Hodiah the.sister of.Naham \[were\].the.father of.Keilah (the) Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5163/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).