89 occurrences

'Comfort' in the Bible

And all his sons and all his daughters came to give him comfort, but he would not be comforted, saying with weeping, I will go down to the underworld to my son. So great was his father's sorrow for him.

So now, have no fear: for I will take care of you and your little ones. So he gave them comfort with kind words.

Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit.

That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living;

If such a man, hearing the words of this oath, takes comfort in the thought that he will have peace even if he goes on in the pride of his heart, taking whatever chance may give him:

Then she said, May I have grace in your eyes, my lord, for you have given me comfort, and you have said kind words to your servant, though I am not like one of your servants.

And Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, My daughter, am I not to get you a resting-place where you may be in comfort?

And David said, I will be a friend to Hanun, the son of Nahash, as his father was a friend to me. So David sent his servants, to give him words of comfort on account of his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.

And David gave comfort to his wife Bath-sheba, and he went in to her and had connection with her: and she had a son to whom she gave the name Solomon. And he was dear to the Lord.

And for a long time Ephraim their father went on weeping for them, and his brothers came to give him comfort.

And David said, I will be a friend to Hanun, the son of Nahash, because his father was a friend to me. So David sent men to him, to give him words of comfort on account of his father. And the servants of David came to Hanun, to the land of the children of Ammon, offering him comfort.

And Job's three friends had word of all this evil which had come on him. And they came every one from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. So they came together to a meeting-place, in order that they might go and make clear to Job their grief for him, and give him comfort.

So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

When I say, In my bed I will have comfort, there I will get rest from my disease;

In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.

Give attention with care to my words; and let this be your comfort.

Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?

Let me say what is in my mind, so that I may get comfort; let me give answer with open mouth.

And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.

I have kept the memory of your decisions from times past, O Lord; and they have been my comfort.

Let your mercy now be my comfort, as you have said to your servant.

Material comfort is not good for the foolish; much less for a servant to be put over rulers.

Give ear to my voice, you women who are living in comfort; give attention to my words, you daughters who have no fear of danger.

Be shaking with fear, you women who are living in comfort; be troubled, you who have no fear of danger: take off your robes and put on clothing of grief.

Let your voice be loud in song, O heavens; and be glad, O earth; make sounds of joy, O mountains, for the Lord has given comfort to his people, and will have mercy on his crushed ones.

For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.

Give sounds of joy, make melody together, waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord has given comfort to his people, he has taken up the cause of Jerusalem.

To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure has come, and the day of punishment from our God; to give comfort to all who are sad;

So that you may take of the comfort flowing from her breasts, and be delighted with the full measure of her glory.

You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

No one will make a feast for them in sorrow, to give them comfort for the dead, or put to their lips the cup of comfort on account of their father or their mother.

Then the virgin will have joy in the dance, and the young men and the old will be glad: for I will have their weeping turned into joy, I will give them comfort and make them glad after their sorrow.

From his earliest days, Moab has been living in comfort; like wine long stored he has not been drained from vessel to vessel, he has never gone away as a prisoner: so his taste is still in him, his smell is unchanged.

Up! go against a nation which is living in comfort and without fear of danger, says the Lord, without doors or locks, living by themselves.

What example am I to give you? what comparison am I to make for you, O daughter of Jerusalem? what am I to make equal to you, so that I may give you comfort, O virgin daughter of Zion? for your destruction is great like the sea: who is able to make you well?

They will give you comfort when you see their ways and their doings: and you will be certain that not for nothing have I done all the things I have done in it, says the Lord.

Sorrow to those who are resting in comfort in Zion, and to those who have no fear of danger in the mountain of Samaria, the noted men of the chief of the nations, to whom the people of Israel come!

And again let your voice be loud and say, This is what the Lord of armies has said: My towns will again be overflowing with good things, and again the Lord will give comfort to Zion and take Jerusalem for himself.

For the images have said what is not true, and the readers of signs have seen deceit; they have given accounts of false dreams, they give comfort to no purpose: so they go out of the way like sheep, they are troubled because they have no keeper.

And a number of Jews had come to Martha and Mary to give them comfort about their brother.

And Joseph, who was given by the Apostles the name of Barnabas (the sense of which is, Son of comfort), a Levite and a man of Cyprus by birth,

And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the Synagogue sent to them, saying, Brothers, if you have a word of comfort for the people, say on.

And they came out of the prison and went to the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brothers they gave them comfort and went away.

And after the noise had come to an end, Paul, having sent for the disciples and given them comfort, went away from them to Macedonia.

For they gave comfort to my spirit and to yours: for which cause give respect to such people.

But if we are troubled, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which takes effect through your quiet undergoing of the same troubles which we undergo:

And not by his coming only, but by the comfort which he had in you, while he gave us word of your desire, your sorrow, your care for me; so that I was still more glad.

So we have been comforted: and we had the greater joy in our comfort because of the joy of Titus, for his spirit had been made glad by you all.

Whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, so that you may have knowledge of our position, and that he may give comfort to your hearts.

And I have sent him to you for this very purpose, so that you may have news of how we are, and so that he may give your hearts comfort;

And Jesus, whose other name is Justus; these are of the circumcision: they are my only brother-workers for the kingdom of God, who have been a comfort to me.

So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;

In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּלג 
Balag 
Usage: 4

מבליגית 
Mabliygiyth 
Usage: 1

מנחה מנוּחה 
M@nuwchah 
Usage: 21

נחם נחוּם 
Nichuwm 
Usage: 3

נחם 
Nacham 
Usage: 108

נחמה 
Nechamah 
Usage: 2

סעד 
Ca`ad 
Usage: 12

רפד 
Raphad 
Usage: 3

תּנחוּמה תּנחם תּנחוּם 
Tanchuwm 
Usage: 5

εὐψυχέω 
Eupsucheo 
be of good comfort
Usage: 1

θαρσέω 
Tharseo 
be of good cheer , be of good comfort
Usage: 1

ὀρφανός 
Orphanos 
Usage: 1

παρακαλέω 
Parakaleo 
Usage: 102

παράκλησις 
Paraklesis 
Usage: 28

παράκλητος 
Parakletos 
Usage: 1

παραμυθέομαι 
Paramutheomai 
Usage: 4

παραμύθιον 
Paramuthion 
Usage: 1

παρηγορία 
Paregoria 
Usage: 1

συμπαρακαλέω 
Sumparakaleo 
Usage: 1

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