נְחוּם
Nehum
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Nehum’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H5149 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Nehemiah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Nehum” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name נחום (Nᵉchûwm). With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Nehemiah, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. A true hapax — its single appearance is Nehemiah 7:7. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5149 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Nehemiah 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Nehum 1×
- American Standard Version: Nehum 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Nehum 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Nehum 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5149 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5149 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5149 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5149 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Nehum = "comfort"
- one of the exiles who returned from exile with Zerubbabel
Word origin
n.pr.m. (comfort) a returned exile Ne 7:7 𝔊 Ναουμ = רְחוּם Ezr 2:2.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from נחם (nâcham) (H5162) — to comfort.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חָמַם
- (b. h.) to be warm, hot; [(of color) to be dark, red; (of taste) to be pungent, sour, bitter]. Part. חָם, q. v.
- to heat, warm, boil. Y. Ned. IV, 38ᶜ bot. לחַמֵּם בו את ידיו to warm his hands against it (the bread). Gen. R. s. 14, end מְחַמֶּמֶת הגוף keeps the body warm. Sabb. 40ᵇ ומְחַמַּמְתָּהּ וכ׳ and warms it (her hand) before the fire; a. fr.
- same. Bets. II, 5 לא יֵחֵם וכ׳ one must not prepare warm water for &c. Sabb. 40ᵃ התחילו … להָחֵם בשבת the bathers began to heat (the water) on the Sabbath; a. fr.—Part. מֵיחֵם, מֵחֵם, pl. מְחַמִּין. Ib.ᵇ; Tosef. ib. III (IV), 7 מיחם אדם וכ׳ (ed. Zuck. מייחם, read: מֵיחֵים), v. אְלוּנְטִית I; [Y. ib. XIX, 17ᵃ bot. מחמין הוא אדם (read as ib. IX, 12ᵃ bot. מְחַמֵּם הוא וכ׳].—Ib. אם מפני הסכנה מְחַמִּין לו וכ׳ if it is for the sake of averting danger to life, may we not even boil water on the Sabbath?—Bets. 22ᵃ; a. v. fr.
- to be warmed. Sabb. III, 5 (41ᵃ) בשביל שיֵחַמּוּ that they become warm; Sabb. 41ᵇ שיֵחוֹמּוּ; Tosef. ib. III (IV), 5 שׁיֵיחַמּוּ; a. e.
- same. Sabb. 134ᵇ שהוּחַמּוּ, v. חָם II. Y. Bets. II, 61ᶜ; a. fr.—B. Mets. VI, 3 הוּחַמָּה the animal was overtaken by the heat.
- to warm one’s self; to become heated. Bets. II, 5; Tosef. Sabb. l. c. Tam. I, 1. Ab. II, 10 הוי מִתְחַמֵּם וכ׳ warm thyself by the fire of the scholars (try to associate with them); a. fr.—Y. Sot. I, 16ᶜ bot. נתח׳ was heated (had pollution). Gen. R. s. 24 מִתְחַמְּמִים, מִתְחַמְּמוֹת conceived
נִחוּם
- , v. נִיחוּם
נָחוּם
- (b. h.) pr. n. m. Nahum,
- 1. N. the prophet. Pesik. Naḥ., p. 127ᵇ; a. e.
- 2. N., name of several Tannaim a. Amoraim. Peah II, 6; Naz. 56ᵇ נ׳ הלבלר.—Sabb. II, 1, a. fr. נ׳ המדי.—Taan. 21ᵃ, a. fr. נ׳ איש גם זו, v. גִּמְזוֹ.—Y. Taan. I, 64ᵇ top נ׳; (Y. Ber. IX, 14ᵃ top תנחום).—Ib. VIII, 12ᵇ bot., a. fr. נ׳ בי ר׳ סימאי; (Pes. 104ᵃ; Ab. Zar. 50ᵃ מנחם בר׳ סימאי;) Y. Meg. I, 72ᵇ bot., a. fr. נ׳ איש קדש קדשים.—Y. Bets. V, 63ᵇ R. N. brother of R. Ila; a. e.—V. Fr. M’bo, p. 116ᵃ
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5149, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- נחום nichûwm H5150 comfort
- נחם nôcham H5164 repentance
- נחמה nechâmâh H5165 comfort
- תנחום tanchûwm H8575 consolation
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- מנחם Mᵉnachêm H4505 Menahem
- נחום Nachûwm H5151 Nahum
- נחם Nacham H5163 Naham
- נחמיה Nᵉchemyâh H5166 Nehemiah
- נחמני Nachămânîy H5167 Nahamani
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 11 — not the complete family. 5 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Nehum). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(consolation), one of those who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. (Nehemiah 7:7)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
comforter; penitent
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
