חָנַן

cha.nan · be gracious

Hebrew · Strong's H2603 · Verb · Sounds like: khaw-nan' · 78 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • be gracious H2603A 77
  • be loathsome H2603B 1

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root (compare חָנָה); properly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore (i.e. move to favor by petition); beseech, [idiom] fair, (be, find, shew) favour(-able), be (deal, give, grant (gracious(-ly), intreat, (be) merciful, have (shew) mercy (on, upon), have pity upon, pray, make supplication, [idiom] very.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
חָנַן vb. shew favour, be gracious
Qal favour, shew favour
Niph. be pitied
Po‛el direct favour to
Hoph. be shewn favour, consideration
Hithp. seek or implore favour
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
[חָנַן] be loathsome—only Jb 19:17

Every occurrence

  1. Deuteronomy 3:23 וָאֶתְחַנַּ֖ן va.'et.cha.Nan · An action: doing it to oneself, and then it happened, done by me

    And I besought Jehovah at that time, saying,

  2. Deuteronomy 7:2 תְחָנֵּֽם׃ te.cha.Nem · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    and when Jehovah thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them;

  3. Deuteronomy 28:50 יָחֹֽן׃ ya.Chon · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young,

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