תַּנְחוּם
tanchum · consolation
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8575 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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tanchum (תַּנְחוּם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “consolation”.
Comfort. Almost always plural: "consolations."
How to say it
tan·chum
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
- The words or care that ease the grief of one who suffers.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- consolations ×4
- consolation ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 15:11
Are too small for you the consolations of El, and a word spoken gently with you?
- Job 21:2
“Listen carefully to my word, and let this be your consolations.
- Psalms 94:19
In the multitude of my anxious thoughts within me, your consolations delight my soul.
- Isaiah 66:11
so that you may suck and be satisfied from the breast of her consolations; so that you may drink deeply and delight from the abundance of her glory.
- Jeremiah 16:7
Nor will people break bread for them in mourning to comfort him for the dead, nor give them to drink the cup of consolation for his father or for his mother.