Soothing
נִיחוֹחַStrong’s H5208nichoach (ni-cho-ach)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nichoach is the Aramaic word usually translated “soothing offerings”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him.”
Meaning
- Soothing, tranquillising
How it's translated
- soothing offerings 1
- and soothing offerings 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
- Daniel 1
2 books in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
נִיחוֹחַ nichoach · soothing
soothing, tranquillising Aramaic of ni.cho.ach (נִיחֹחַ "soothing" H5207)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.