Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Lewis Reich" <LBR AT sprynet.com>]

On 12 Mar 99, at 5:52, Andrew C Smith wrote:
 
> My questions is about the verb "repent". The more common verb for
> "repent" is SHIN-VAV-BETH, as in "Teshuvah" and other forms. But here the
> author has chosen to use "nacham" NUN-CHET-MEM, a less common, although
> still quite common, verb for repent. What is the difference between the
> two?

My impression (and I have nothing immediately at hand to back it up, 
so I'm just tossing it out as a suggestion) is that the sense of $WB 
is repenting or atoning for a sin, while NXM has a sense of regret 
for a mistaken decision.

Lewis Reich
LBR AT sprynet.com