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# נֹחַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5164

**sorrow** — 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

sorrow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5164/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֹ֫חַם: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5164/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. sorrow, repentance, Ho 13:14.

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, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Hosea 13:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.13.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.13.14/#tree)

מִיַּ֤ד שְׁאוֹל֙ אֶפְדֵּ֔ם מִמָּ֖וֶת אֶגְאָלֵ֑ם אֱהִ֨י דְבָרֶיךָ֜מָ֗וֶת אֱהִ֤י קָֽטָבְךָ֙ שְׁא֔וֹל נֹ֖חַם יִסָּתֵ֥ר מֵעֵינָֽי׃

*Word for word:* from the.hand of.Sheol will I.ransom.them? from death will I.redeem.them? where? plagues \[are\].your O.death where? destruction \[is\].your O.Sheol compassion it.will.be.hidden from eyes my

*JPS 1917:* Shall I ransom them from the power of the nether-world? Shall I redeem them from death? Ho, thy plagues, O death! Ho, thy destruction, O nether-world! Repentance be hid from Mine eyes!

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5164.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5164/): 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).