Hebrew word · H5163

נַ֫חַם

nacham

Naham

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. · Updated October 21, 2026

What it means

A man of the tribe of Judah(?) living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.4.19;

brother of: Hodiah (H1940)

§ Naham = "comfort"

the brother of IIodiah or Jehudijah, wife of Ezra

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

1 Chronicles · 1

1 Chronicles 4:19 נַ֔חַם Naham

The sons of Hodiah’s wife, the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and of Eshtemoa the Maacathite.

Here: A personal name, probably from the root for 'comfort'. He appears only here. His role is to identify the woman's family.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.