- Original: חנן
- Transliteration: Chanan
- Phonetic: khaw-nan'
- Definition:
1. to be gracious, show favour, pity
a. (Qal) to show favour, be gracious
b. (Niphal) to be pitied
c. (Piel) to make gracious, make favourable, be gracious
d. (Poel) to direct favour to, have mercy on
e. (Hophal) to be shown favour, be shown consideration
f. (Hithpael) to seek favour, implore favour
2. to be loathsome
- Origin: a primitive root [compare
H2583 ]
- TWOT entry: 694,695
- Part(s) of speech: Verb
- Strong's: A primitive root (compare
H2583 ); properly to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor bestow; causatively to implore (that is move to favor by petition): - beseech X 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 X very.
Total KJV Occurrences: 77
• besought, 4
Genesis 42:21;
Deuteronomy 3:23;
2 Kings 1:13;
Esther 8:3
• entreated, 2
Job 19:16;
Job 19:17
• fair, 1
Proverbs 26:25
• favor, 7
Deuteronomy 28:50;
Psalm 102:13;
Psalm 102:14;
Psalm 109:12;
Psalm 112:5;
Proverbs 21:10;
Isaiah 27:11
• favorable, 1
Judges 21:22
• favored, 1
Lamentations 4:16
• given, 1
Genesis 33:5
• gracious, 14
Genesis 43:29;
Exodus 33:19(2);
Numbers 6:25;
2 Samuel 12:22;
2 Kings 13:23;
Job 33:24;
Isaiah 30:18;
Isaiah 30:19(2);
Isaiah 33:2;
Jeremiah 22:23;
Amos 5:15;
Malachi 1:9
• graciously, 2
Genesis 33:11;
Psalm 119:29
• merciful, 12
Psalm 26:11;
Psalm 37:26;
Psalm 41:4;
Psalm 41:10;
Psalm 56:1;
Psalm 57:1(2);
Psalm 59:5;
Psalm 67:1;
Psalm 86:3;
Psalm 119:58;
Psalm 119:132
• mercy, 12
Deuteronomy 7:2;
Psalm 4:1;
Psalm 6:2;
Psalm 9:13;
Psalm 25:16;
Psalm 27:7;
Psalm 30:10;
Psalm 31:9;
Psalm 37:21;
Psalm 51:1;
Psalm 86:16;
Proverbs 14:31
• on, 1
Proverbs 14:21
• pity, 2
Proverbs 19:17;
Proverbs 28:8
• pray, 1
2 Chronicles 6:37
• showed, 1
Isaiah 26:10
• supplication, 10
1 Kings 8:33;
1 Kings 8:47;
1 Kings 8:59;
2 Chronicles 6:24;
Esther 4:8;
Job 8:5;
Job 9:15;
Psalm 30:8;
Psalm 142:1;
Hosea 12:4
• upon, 5
Job 19:21(2);
Psalm 123:2;
Psalm 123:3(2)
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