Amos 7:6

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Yahweh relented concerning this. "This also shall not be," says the Lord Yahweh.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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נִחַ֥ם

nâcham

H5162

“to comfort”

Verb, Niphal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

Appears 108× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 5:29

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 1344

to be sorry, console oneself, repent, regret, comfort, be comforted - (Niphal) - to be sorry, be moved to pity, have compassion - to be sorry, rue, suffer grief, repent - to comfort oneself, be comforted - to comfort oneself, ease oneself - (Piel) to comfort, console - (Pual) to be comforted, be consoled - (Hithpael) - to be sorry, have compassion - to rue, repent of - to comfort oneself, be comforted - to ease oneself

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

11: words
11: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
3 nouns
2 pronouns
1 preposition
2 particles

Verb forms

נִחַ֥ם Niphal · Perfect
תִֽהְיֶ֔ה Qal · Imperfect
אָמַ֖ר Qal · Perfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 8 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter here. See the side-by-side →

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 11 Hebrew tokens and 11 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Amos 7:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Judges 2:18 When Yahweh raised them up judges, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and vexed them.
Judges 10:16 They put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
Psalms 90:13 Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!
Psalms 135:14 For Yahweh will judge his people, And have compassion on his servants.
Jeremiah 26:19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn't he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus should we commit great evil against our own souls.
Amos 7:3 Yahweh relented concerning this. "It shall not be," says Yahweh.
Jonah 3:10 God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God repented of the evil which he said he would do to them, and he didn't do it.
Jonah 4:2 He prayed to Yahweh, and said, "Please, Yahweh, wasn't this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you repent of the evil.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

Here the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 8 words vs World English Bible 13. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Amos 7:6 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

נִחַ֥ם יְהוָ֖ה עַל זֹ֑את גַּם הִיא֙ לֹ֣א תִֽהְיֶ֔ה אָמַ֖ר אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה

Yahweh relented concerning this. "This also shall not be," says the Lord Yahweh.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Amos 7:6 Septuagint · lemma form

μετανοέω κύριος ἐπί οὗτος καί οὗτος οὐ μή γίγνομαι λέγω κύριος

This also shall not be, says the Lord.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

אֲתֵיב יְיָ רוּגְזֵיהּ עַל דָא לָא תִתְקַיֵם אֲמַר יְיָ אֱלֹהִים:

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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Amos 7:6 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Amo 7:6 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.

Ver. 6. The Lord repented for this] As he is gracious, Exo 22:27, and quickly repenteth him of the evil, Joe 2:13. Redire nos, non perire desiderat (Chrysologus). "I said, I would scatter them into corners," &c., Deu 32:26-27. Mercy could not behold such strange wrath and cruelty and not weep herself even sick, as it were.

This also shall not be, saith the Lord] So ready is he to yield himself overcome by the suits of his servants, Flectitur iratus voce rogante Deus. See Amo 7:3.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Calvin's Commentaries

He adds, that God was again pacified. We must ever bear in mind the object he had in view; for ungodly men thought the Prophets to be liars, whenever God did not immediately execute the vengeance he had denounced: but Amos here reminds them, that when God defers punishment, he does not in vain threaten, but waits for men to repent; and that if they still go on in abusing his patience, they will have at last to feel how dreadful is the vengeance which awaits all those who thus pervert the goodness of God, who hear not God inviting them so kindly to himself. This is the meaning. It follows —

John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.

John Gill's Exposition

The Lord repented for this,.... He heard the prophet's prayer, and desisted from going on with the threatened destruction:

this also shall not be, saith the Lord God; the whole land shall not be destroyed, only a part of it carried captive.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

The. Septuagint, as ver. 3. (Haydock) --- We read not of locusts being sent, ver. 1. But fire of war certainly raged before the final catastrophe of Jehu’s family, when Sellum slew Zacharias, 4 Kings xv. 8. (Calmet)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

These two verses are almost word for word the same with Amo 7:2,3, which see.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Amos, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 11 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is nâcham (“to comfort”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “to comfort” (nâcham) contribute to the verse as a whole?
How does Judges 2:18, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
The Septuagint runs shorter here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
«נִחַ֥ם» is a Niphal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Calvin's Commentaries read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 11 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 10 words in this verse.
11 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.