nachat · descent, rest

What it means

nachat (נַחַת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “descent, rest”.

A coming down, a descent; also quiet, rest.

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. The coming down of something from above.
2. Tranquility: being without hurry or toil.
3. What is put on the table to eat.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• rest ×5
• descent ×2
• what is set ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Job×2
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×3
• Isaiah×2

• Job 17:16

  Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Or together into the dust will be the descent?”

• Job 36:16

  And he also incites you to come out from the mouth of distress into a broad place, with no constraint beneath it, and what is set on your table is full of fatness.

• Proverbs 29:9

  A wise man who goes to law with a foolish man, whether he rages or laughs, there is no rest.

• Ecclesiastes 4:6

  Better is a full palm with rest than two full fists with toil and striving after wind.

• Ecclesiastes 6:5

  Also it has not seen the sun nor known it; there is more rest for this one than for that one.

• Ecclesiastes 9:17

  The words of the wise, in rest, are heard more than the cry of a ruler among the senseless.

• Isaiah 30:15

  For thus says Adonai YHWH, the Holy One of Israel: “In returning and rest you will be saved; in quietness and in trust will be your might.” But you were not willing,

• Isaiah 30:30

  And YHWH will make heard the splendor of his voice, and the descent of his arm he will show, with raging anger and the flame of a devouring fire, cloudburst and downpour and stones of hail.