נָחַם

nacham

nah-KHAM

to comfort, to console, to relent

Where it comes from

A physically loaded word — it carries the sense of breathing deeply, like the sigh that comes when relief finally arrives.

Isaiah 40:1-2

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned.

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