מְנַחֵםMᵉnachêm

Same root

• נָחַםnâcham · H5162properly, to sigh, i.e. breathe strongly; by implication, to be sorry, i.e. (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavorably) to avenge (oneself)

Where it appears

Appears 8 times in the Bible.

• 2 Kings 15:14 Then Menahem son of Gadi went to Samaria from Tirzah and assassinated him, and he became the next king.
• 2 Kings 15:16 At that time Menahem destroyed the town of Tappuah and all the surrounding countryside as far as Tirzah, because its citizens refused to surrender the town. He killed the entire population and ripped open the pregnant women.
• 2 Kings 15:17 Menahem son of Gadi began to rule over Israel in the thirty-ninth year of King Uzziah’s reign in Judah. He reigned in Samaria ten years.
• 2 Kings 15:19 Then King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria invaded the land. But Menahem paid him thirty-seven tons of silver to gain his support in tightening his grip on royal power.
• 2 Kings 15:20 Menahem extorted the money from the rich of Israel, demanding that each of them pay fifty pieces of silver to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned from attacking Israel and did not stay in the land.
• 2 Kings 15:21 The rest of the events in Menahem’s reign and everything he did are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Israel.