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# נֶחָמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5165

**comfort** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

comfort [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5165/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֶחָמָה: n.f. comfort [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5165/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. comfort, sf. נֶחָמָתִי ψ 119:50 Jb 6:10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: comfort (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 119:50](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.50/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.50/#tree)

זֹ֣את נֶחָמָתִ֣י בְעָנְיִ֑י כִּ֖י אִמְרָתְךָ֣ חִיָּֽתְנִי׃

*Word for word:* this comfort \[is\].my in affliction my (cmp) word your it has.preserved.me.alive

*JPS 1917:* This is my comfort in my affliction, that Thy word hath quickened me.

[Job 6:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.10/#tree)

וּ֥תְהִי ע֨וֹד ׀ נֶ֘חָ֤מָתִ֗י וַאֲסַלְּדָ֣ה בְ֭חִילָה לֹ֣א יַחְמ֑וֹל כִּי־לֹ֥א כִ֝חַ֗דְתִּי אִמְרֵ֥י קָדֽוֹשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and may.it.be still comfort my and may.I.jump in anguish \[which\].not it.relents (dm) not I.have.hidden \[the\].words of.\[the\].holy.\[one\]

*JPS 1917:* Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would exult in pain, though He spare not; for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5165.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5165/): 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).