tan.chum denotes comfort offered or received amid grief, anxiety, need, or a plea for understanding.

The attested uses describe comfort as something received in distress or offered to another: it is associated with God and a gently spoken word in Job 15:11, requested through speech in Job 21:2, set against inner anxieties in Psalm 94:19, withheld in mourning in Jeremiah 16:7, and pictured as nourishment in Isaiah 66:11.

1. Comfort received or offered in distress · dominant

   All five occurrences use plural noun forms in clauses concerning relief or reassurance. In Job 15:11 the APB renders God's consolations alongside “a word spoken softly”; in Job 21:2 it renders the requested hearing of speech as “your consolation”; and in Psalm 94:19 it renders the response to many inner anxieties as consolations that delight the soul. Jeremiah 16:7 places such comfort within mourning for the dead, while Isaiah 66:11 pictures it as a breast from which people nurse and are satisfied.

   Job 15:11Job 21:2Psalm 94:19Jeremiah 16:7Isaiah 66:11

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB repeatedly uses “consolations” or “consolation,” including God's consolations, a cup of consolations, and consolation connected with speech. In Isaiah 66:11 it presents the clause through the image of “the breast of her consolation”; these are translation renderings rather than definitions.