Strong's #2603: chanan (pronounced khaw-nan')
a primitive root (compare 2583); properly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore (i.e. 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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
chânan
1) to be gracious, show favour, pity
1a) (Qal) to show favour, be gracious
1b) (Niphal) to be pitied
1c) (Piel) to make gracious, make favourable, be gracious
1d) (Poel) to direct favour to, have mercy on
1e) (Hophal) to be shown favour, be shown consideration
1f) (Hithpael) to seek favour, implore favour
2) to be loathsome
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root [compare H2583]
Usage:
This word is used 77 times:
Psalms 102:14: "take pleasure in her stones, and favor the dust"
Psalms 109:12: "mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children."
Psalms 112:5: "A good man showeth favor, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion."
Psalms 119:29: "me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously."
Psalms 119:58: "thy favor with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word."
Psalms 119:132: "Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name."
Psalms 123:2: "our God, until that he have mercy upon that he have mercy upon"
Psalms 123:3: " Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt."
Psalms 123:3: "Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt."
Psalms 142:1: "with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication."
Proverbs 14:21: "He that despiseth his neighbor sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy"
Proverbs 14:31: "reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoreth him hath mercy on the poor."
Proverbs 19:17: " He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again."
Proverbs 21:10: "evil: his neighbor findeth no favor in his eyes."
Proverbs 26:25: "When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations"
Proverbs 28:8: "increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor."
Isaiah 26:10: " Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly,"
Isaiah 27:11: "he that made them will not on them, and he that formed them will show them no favor."
Isaiah 30:18: "And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for"
Isaiah 30:19: "in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice"
Isaiah 30:19: "in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice"
Isaiah 33:2: "O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also"
Jeremiah 22:23: "that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!"
Lamentations 4:16: "not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders."
Hosea 12:4: "the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke"
Amos 5:15: "that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph."
Malachi 1:9: "I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means:"
