Repentance
נֹ֫חַםStrong’s H5164nocham (no-cham)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Nocham is the Hebrew word usually translated “compassion”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.”
Meaning
- Repentance, sorrow
How it's translated
- compassion 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Hosea 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
נֹ֫חַם nocham · repentance
repentance, sorrow
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “repentance” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REPENT'ANCE, noun
- Sorrow for any thing done or said; the pain or grief which a person experiences in consequence of the injury or inconvenience produced by his own conduct.
- In theology, the pain, regret or affliction which a person feels on account of his past conduct, because it exposes him to punishment.
- Real penitence; sorrow or deep contrition for sin, as an offense and dishonor to God, a violation of his holy law, and the basest ingratitude towards a Being of infinite benevolence.“Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation” 2 Corinthians 7:10
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.