Comfort
נִחוּםStrong’s H5150nichum (ni-chum)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nichum is the Hebrew word usually translated “comfort” and “compassions my”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.”
Meaning
- Comfort, compassioncomfort · compassion
How it's translated
- comfort 2
- compassions my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
- Hosea 1
- Zechariah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 57:18I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
- Hosea 11:8How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.
Hebrew dictionary
נִחוּם nichum · comfort
1) comfort, compassion 1a) comfort 1b) compassion
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “comfort” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COMFORT, verb transitive
- To strengthen; to invigorate; to cheer or enliven.“COMFORT ye your hearts” Genesis 18:5
- To strengthen the mind when depressed or enfeebled; to console; to give new vigor to the spirits; to cheer, or relieve from depression, or trouble.“His friends came to mourn with him and to comfort him” Job 2:11
- In law, to relieve, assist or encourage, as the accessory to a crime after the fact.
All definitions and other forms of “comfort”
COMFORT, noun
- Relief from pain; ease; rest or moderate pleasure after pain, cold or distress or uneasiness of body.
- Relief from distress of mind; the ease and quiet which is experienced when pain, trouble, agitation or affliction ceases.“Let me alone, that I may take comfort a little” Job 10:20“Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole” Matthew 9:22
- Support; consolation under calamity, distress or danger.“Let thy merciful kindness be for my comfort” Psalms 119:76
- That which gives strength or support in distress, difficulty, danger, or infirmity.
- In law, support; assistance; countenance; encouragement; as, an accessory affords aid or comfort to a felon.
- That which gives security from want and furnishes moderate enjoyment; as the comforts of life.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.