Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H2603

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Original: חנן

Transliteration: chanan (chânan)

Phonetic: khaw-nan'

BDB Definition:

to be gracious, show favour, pity
1. (Qal) to show favour, be gracious
2. (Niphal) to be pitied
3. (Piel) to make gracious, make favourable, be gracious
4. (Poel) to direct favour to, have mercy on
5. (Hophal) to be shown favour, be shown consideration
6. (Hithpael) to seek favour, implore favour
to be loathsome

Origin: a primitive root [compare H2583]

TWOT entry: 694,695

Part(s) of speech: Verb

Strong's Definition: 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.

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (76x)

And Besought (2x)

And Favour (1x)

And Have Mercy (1x)

And I Besought (1x)

And Made Supplication (1x)

And Make Supplication (3x)

And Make Thy Supplication (1x)

And Pray (1x)

Be Gracious (2x)

Be Merciful (8x)

Be Not Merciful (1x)

But He That Hath Mercy (1x)

Did I Make My Supplication (1x)

Fair (1x)

Findeth No Favour (1x)

Gracious (1x)

Graciously (1x)

Hath Dealt Graciously With Me (1x)

Hath Graciously Given (1x)

Have Mercy (8x)

Have Pity (1x)

He That Hath Pity (1x)

He Will Be Very (1x)

Him Hath Mercy (1x)

How Gracious (1x)

I Intreated (1x)

I Made Supplication (1x)

I Would Make Supplication (1x)

It For Him That Will Pity (1x)

Let Favour Be Shewed (1x)

Me, And Be Merciful (1x)

Merciful (1x)

Nor Shew Favour (1x)

Sheweth Favour (1x)

Sheweth Mercy (1x)

That He May Be Gracious (1x)

That He Will Be Gracious (1x)

That Thou Hast Made (1x)

Thee Unto Me, And Have Mercy (1x)

Thee; And Will Be Gracious (1x)

Them Will Shew Them No Favour (1x)

Then He Is Gracious (1x)

They Favoured (1x)

Thou Upon Me, And Be Merciful (1x)

To Favour (1x)

To Make Supplication (1x)

To Whom I Will Be Gracious (1x)

Until That He Have Mercy (1x)

Unto Him: Neither Let There Be Any To Favour (1x)

Unto Me, And Have Mercy (1x)

Unto Them, Be Favourable (1x)

Upon Me, Have Pity (1x)

Upon Thee, And Be Gracious (1x)

Was Gracious (1x)

When He Besought (1x)

Wherewith I Have Made Supplication (1x)

Will Be Gracious (1x)

With Them, Nor Shew Mercy (1x)

All Occurrences

Genesis 33:5

And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.(a)

Genesis 33:11

Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.(d)

Genesis 42:21

And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

Genesis 43:29

And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.

Exodus 33:19

And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.

Numbers 6:25

The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:

Deuteronomy 3:23

And I besought the Lord at that time, saying,

Deuteronomy 7:2

And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

Deuteronomy 28:50

A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:(m)

Judges 21:22

And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.(h)

2 Samuel 12:22

And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live?

1 Kings 8:33

When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:(j)

1 Kings 8:47

Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;(o)

1 Kings 8:59

And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the Lord , be nigh unto the Lord our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:(r)

1 Kings 9:3

And the Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

2 Kings 1:13

And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.(c)

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 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.(i)

2 Chronicles 6:24

And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house;(g)

(h)

2 Chronicles 6:37

Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;(s)

Esther 4:8

Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.

Esther 8:3

And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.(a)

Job 8:5

If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

Job 9:15

Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

Job 19:16

I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

Job 19:21

Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

Job 33:24

Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.(j)

Psalm 4:1

Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.(a)

(b)

Psalm 6:2

Have mercy upon me, O Lord ; for I am weak: O Lord , heal me; for my bones are vexed.

Psalm 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 of death:

Psalm 25:16

Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.

Psalm 26:11

But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.

Psalm 27:7

Hear, O Lord , when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

Psalm 30:8

I cried to thee, O Lord ; and unto the Lord I made supplication.

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Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

Strong's Concor­dance

Hebrew-Aramaic H2603

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Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H2603