Soothing
נִיחֹחַStrong’s H5207nichoach (ni-cho-ach)
Appears in 43 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nichoach is the Hebrew word usually translated “soothing”, “soothing your” and “soothing my”. It appears in 43 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.”
Meaning
- Soothing, quieting, tranquillising
How it's translated
- soothing 40
- soothing your 1
- soothing my 1
- soothing their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 18
- Leviticus 17
- Ezekiel 4
- Exodus 3
- Genesis 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 29:18And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt offering unto the LORD: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
- Exodus 29:25And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
- Exodus 29:41And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
- Leviticus 1:9But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
- Leviticus 1:13But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water: and the priest shall bring it all, and burn it upon the altar: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
- Leviticus 1:17And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
נִיחֹחַ nichoach · soothing
soothing, quieting, tranquillising Aramaic equivalent: ni.cho.ach (נִיחוֹחַ "soothing" H5208)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “soothing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SOOTH'ING, participle present
tense Flattering; softening; assuaging.
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.