Biblical Hebrew

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hebrew #5183 - נַחַת Nachath


Original Word:נַחַת
Transliteration: Nachath
Phonetic Spelling:(nakh'-ath)
Definition:quietness, rest
Part of Speech:Noun
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

lighting down, quietness, to rest, be set on

From nchath; a descent, i.e. Imposition, unfavorable (punishment) or favorable (food); also (intransitively; perhaps from nuwach), restfulness -- lighting down, quiet(-ness), to rest, be set on.

see HEBREW nchath

see HEBREW nuwach


Englishman's Concordance

1) rest, quietness
1a) quietness, quiet attitude
1b) rest (of death)
2) descent (of judgment)
Part of Speech: noun feminine or masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H5182
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1323a, 1351a

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. נַ֫חַתnoun [feminine] (apparently masculineJob 36:16, but see below) quietness, rest (under this √ Thes Ol§ 164 c Sta§ 201 dii. 172 f.; > below נחת DlProl. 118 ff.); — ׳נIsaiah 30:15 2t., נָ֑חַתJob 17:16 2t.; construct נַ֫חַתJob 36:16; —

1quietness, quiet attitudeIsaiah 30:15 ("" הַשְׁקֵט); נִשְׁמָעִים׳דִּבְרֵי חֲכָמִים בְּנEcclesiastes 9:17; opposed to עָמָל וּרְעוּת רוּחַEcclesiastes 4:6; opposed to רָגַז, שָׂחַקProverbs 29:9; of comfort of one's table, i.e. its satisfying plenty, שֻׁלְחָֽנְךָ מָלֵא דָ֑שֶׁן׳וְנJob 36:16the comfort of thy table, which (i.e. the table) was full of fat (Di, compare Bu; > that which is set on thy table shall be, etc. De and others, making ׳נ subject of מָלֵא, and so masculine).

2rest of death Job 17:16 read נֵחָ֑ת (ᵐ5 Du Dr), √ נחת=descend (compare Job 21:13); of a stillborn child Ecclesiastes 6:5. — II, III.נַחַת see נחת.

II. נַ֫חַתnoun [masculine]descent; — only construct, of ׳יs arm in judgment Isaiah 30:30. — I.נַחַת see below נוח.


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 5183. נָ֫חַת (Nachath) — 8 Occurrences

Job 17:16
HEB:עַל־ עָפָ֣ר נָֽחַת׃ ס
NAS: Shall we together go down into the dust?
KJV: of the pit, when [our] rest together
INT: in the dust go

Job 36:16
HEB:מוּצָ֣ק תַּחְתֶּ֑יהָ וְנַ֥חַת שֻׁ֝לְחָנְךָ֗ מָ֣לֵא
NAS: constraint; And that which was set on your table
KJV: [there is] no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table
INT: constraint Instead which your table was full

Proverbs 29:9
HEB:וְ֝שָׂחַ֗ק וְאֵ֣ין נָֽחַת׃
NAS: or laughs, and there is no rest.
KJV: or laugh, [there is] no rest.
INT: laughs and there rest

Ecclesiastes 4:6
HEB:מְלֹ֥א כַ֖ף נָ֑חַת מִמְּלֹ֥א חָפְנַ֛יִם
NAS: One hand full of rest is better than
KJV: [is] an handful [with] quietness, than both the hands
INT: full hand of rest full fists

Ecclesiastes 6:5
HEB:וְלֹ֣א יָדָ֑ע נַ֥חַת לָזֶ֖ה מִזֶּֽה׃
NAS: knows [anything]; it is better off than
KJV: [any thing]: this hath more rest than
INT: never knows is better this than

Ecclesiastes 9:17
HEB:דִּבְרֵ֣י חֲכָמִ֔ים בְּנַ֖חַת נִשְׁמָעִ֑ים מִזַּעֲקַ֥ת
NAS: heard in quietness are [better] than
KJV: [men are] heard in quiet more than the cry
INT: the words of the wise quietness heard the cry

Isaiah 30:15
HEB:יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל בְּשׁוּבָ֤ה וָנַ֙חַת֙ תִּוָּ֣שֵׁע֔וּן בְּהַשְׁקֵט֙
NAS: In repentance and rest you will be saved,
KJV: In returning and rest shall ye be saved;
INT: of Israel repentance and rest will be saved quietness

Isaiah 30:30
HEB:ה֣וֹד קוֹל֗וֹ וְנַ֤חַת זְרוֹעוֹ֙ יַרְאֶ֔ה
NAS: to be heard, And the descending of His arm
KJV: and shall shew the lighting down of his arm,
INT: of authority his voice and the descending of his arm to be seen

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