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:
Genesis 33:5: "The children which God hath graciously given thy servant."
Genesis 33:11: "is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged"
Genesis 42:21: "we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought hear; therefore"
Genesis 43:29: "me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son."
Exodus 33:19: "thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious,"
Exodus 33:19: "before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, on whom"
Numbers 6:25: "make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious"
Deuteronomy 3:23: " And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,"
Deuteronomy 7:2: "them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy"
Deuteronomy 28:50: "the person of the old, nor show favor to the young:"
Judges 21:22: "us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favorable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not"
2 Samuel 12:22: "Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?"
1 Kings 8:33: "thy name, and pray, and make supplication thee in this house:"
1 Kings 8:47: "Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto"
1 Kings 8:59: "And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh"
2 Kings 1:13: "his knees Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man"
2 Kings 13:23: "And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with"
2 Chronicles 6:24: "thy name, and pray and make supplication thee in this house;"
2 Chronicles 6:37: "Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto"
Esther 4:8: "unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for"
Esther 8:3: "and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief"
Job 8:5: "If thou wouldest seek unto God quickly, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;"
Job 9:15: "I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge."
Job 19:16: "my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth."
Job 19:17: "My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of mine own body."
Job 19:21: " Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched"
Job 19:21: "Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched"
Job 33:24: " Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom."
Psalms 4:1: "of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer."
Psalms 6:2: " Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for"
Psalms 9:13: " Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates"
Psalms 25:16: "Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted."
Psalms 26:11: "I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful"
Psalms 27:7: "O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer"
Psalms 30:8: "thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication."
Psalms 30:10: "Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper."
Psalms 31:9: " Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul"
Psalms 37:21: "and payeth not again: but the righteous showeth mercy, and giveth."
Psalms 37:26: "He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed."
Psalms 41:4: "I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned"
Psalms 41:10: "But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite"
Psalms 51:1: "he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: of thy tender mercies"
Psalms 56:1: "when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up;"
Psalms 57:1: "from Saul in the cave. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for"
Psalms 57:1: "Saul in the cave. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth"
Psalms 59:5: "all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked Selah."
Psalms 67:1: "A Psalm or Song. God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon"
Psalms 86:3: " Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily."
Psalms 86:16: "O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son"
Psalms 102:13: "Zion: for the time to favor her, yea, the set time, is come."
