nachat · come down, sink

What it means

nachat (נָחַת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “come down, sink”.

To come down; to sink or break; to press down.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To descend, or fall on someone.
2. To go in deep until it sinks into the one who receives it.
3. To bend a bow to string it and make it ready to shoot.
4. To level plowed ground by breaking up the clods.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• bend ×2
• Bring down ×1
• goes deeper ×1
• has come down ×1
• have come down ×1
• they go down ×1
• will be shattered ×1
• will come down ×1
• you level ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Joel×1

• 1 Samuel 2:10

  YHWH: those who contend with him will be shattered; against them he will thunder in the heavens. YHWH will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and lift high the horn of his anointed.”

• 2 Samuel 22:35

  He trains my hands for war, and my arms bend a bow of bronze.

• Job 21:13

  They finish their days in prosperity, and in a moment they go down to Sheol.

• Psalms 18:34

  He trains my hands for war, and my arms bend a bow of bronze.

• Psalms 38:2

  For your arrows have come down into me, and your hand has come down upon me.

• Psalms 65:10

  Its furrows you drench, you level its clods; with downpours you soften it; its sprouts you bless.

• Proverbs 17:10

  A rebuke goes deeper into the discerning than a hundred blows into the senseless.

• Jeremiah 21:13

  Look, I am against you, inhabitant of the valley, rock of the plain, declares YHWH, you who say, “Who will come down against us? And who will enter into our dwellings?”

• Joel 3:11

  Hurry and come, all the nations round about, and gather together there. Bring down, YHWH, your mighty men.

And 1 more times.