Genesis 6:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּנָּ֣חֶם יְהוָ֔ה כִּֽי־עָשָׂ֥ה אֶת־הֽ͏ָאָדָ֖ם בָּאָ֑רֶץ וַיִּתְעַצֵּ֖ב אֶל־לִבּֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

wa-yinnāḥem YHWH that ʿāśâ ʾet-hā-ʾādām in ʾāreṣ and wa-yitʿaṣṣēb unto libbô

Grammar Details

• *wa-yinnāḥem*: conjunction + niphal imperfect 3ms - and he repented/was sorry/regretted
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
• *ʿāśâ*: qal perfect 3ms - he made/had made
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *hā-ʾādām*: noun masculine singular with definite article - man/mankind/humanity
• *ʾāreṣ*: noun feminine singular with prefix preposition - in the earth/land
• *wa-yitʿaṣṣēb*: conjunction + hithpael imperfect 3ms - and he was grieved/pained
• *libbô*: noun masculine singular + 3ms suffix with prefix preposition - to his heart

Word Meanings

• *wa-yinnāḥem*: repented/was sorry/regretted/changed his mind/was grieved
• *wa-yitʿaṣṣēb*: was grieved/was pained/was distressed
• *ʾel-libbô*: in his heart/to his heart/within himself

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 15:11 : 11 It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
• Eph 4:30 : 30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
• Isa 63:10 : 10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
• 2 Sam 24:16 : 16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
• Num 23:19 : 19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
• 1 Sam 15:29 : 29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.
• Exod 32:14 : 14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
• Jas 1:17 : 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
• Heb 3:10 : 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
• Jer 18:8-9 : 8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. 9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; 10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
• Jer 26:19 : 19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.
• Ezek 33:11 : 11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
• Hos 11:8 : 8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.
• Joel 2:13 : 13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
• Jonah 3:10 : 10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
• Mal 3:6 : 6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
• Luke 19:41-42 : 41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, 42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
• Rom 11:29 : 29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
• 1 Chr 21:15 : 15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
• Ps 78:40 : 40 How oft did they provoke{H8686)} him in the wilderness, and grieve{H8686)} him in the desert!
• Ps 81:13 : 13 Oh that my people had hearkened{H8802)} unto me, and Israel had walked{H8762)} in my ways!
• Ps 95:10 : 10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
• Ps 106:45 : 45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
• Ps 110:4 : 4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
• Ps 119:158 : 158 I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
• Isa 48:18 : 18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
• Heb 3:17 : 17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
• Heb 6:17-18 : 17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: 18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
• Deut 5:29 : 29 O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
• Deut 32:29 : 29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
• Deut 32:36 : 36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
• 1 Sam 15:35 : 35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.