TBESH · H2580
חֵן · chen · favor
1) favour, grace, charm 1a) favour, grace, elegance 1b) favour, acceptance
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chen H2580
חֵן (chen) means “favor” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
חֵן Hebrew · H2580 69 tagged occurrences in 67 verses
Pronunciation guide: khane Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
from H2603 (חָנַן); graciousness, i.e. subjective (kindness, favor) or objective (beauty)
KJV glosses: favour, grace(-ious), pleasant, precious, (well-) favoured.
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How translators render H2580
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| favor | 43 |
| grace | 6 |
| of grace | 3 |
| such favor | 3 |
| a graceful | 1 |
| a gracious | 1 |
| and adornment | 1 |
| and gracious | 1 |
| are gracious | 1 |
| charm | 1 |
| favor with you | 1 |
| is a charm | 1 |
| more favor | 1 |
| the favor | 1 |
| the seductive | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| grace | 33 |
| favour | 22 |
| of grace | 3 |
| a gracious | 1 |
| a precious | 1 |
| and grace | 1 |
| and pleasant | 1 |
| gracious | 1 |
| him favour | 1 |
| more favour | 1 |
| no favour | 1 |
| nor yet favour | 1 |
| of the wellfavoured | 1 |
| the grace | 1 |
Verses containing H2580
Page 1 of 2. 67 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 6:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
Read word by word - Genesis 18:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“My lord,” said Abraham, “if I have found favor in your sight, please do not pass your servant by.
Read word by word - Genesis 19:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.
Read word by word - Genesis 30:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But Laban replied, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.”
Read word by word - Genesis 32:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, menservants, and maidservants. I have sent this message to inform my master, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.6
- Genesis 33:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“What do you mean by sending this whole company to meet me?” asked Esau. “To find favor in your sight, my lord,” Jacob answered.
Read word by word - Genesis 33:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But Jacob insisted, “No, please! If I have found favor in your sight, then receive this gift from my hand. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing the face of God, since you have received me favorably.
Read word by word - Genesis 33:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Let me leave some of my people with you,” Esau said. But Jacob replied, “Why do that? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”
Read word by word - Genesis 34:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Grant me this favor, and I will give you whatever you ask.
Read word by word - Genesis 39:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Joseph found favor in his sight and became his personal attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household and entrusted him with everything he owned.
Read word by word - Genesis 39:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
the LORD was with him and extended kindness to him, granting him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.
Read word by word - Genesis 47:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“You have saved our lives,” they said. “We have found favor in our lord’s eyes, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”
Read word by word - Genesis 47:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise to show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,
Read word by word - Genesis 50:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please tell Pharaoh that
Read word by word - Exodus 3:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And I will grant this people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that when you leave, you will not go away empty-handed.
Read word by word - Exodus 11:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, Moses himself was highly regarded in Egypt by Pharaoh’s officials and by the people.
Read word by word - Exodus 12:36
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And the LORD gave the people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that they granted their request. In this way they plundered the Egyptians.
Read word by word - Exodus 33:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Moses said to the LORD, “Look, You have been telling me, ‘Lead this people up,’ but You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have found favor in My sight.’
Read word by word - Exodus 33:13
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Now if indeed I have found favor in Your sight, please let me know Your ways, that I may know You and find favor in Your sight. Remember that this nation is Your people.”
Read word by word - Exodus 33:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”
Read word by word - Exodus 33:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the LORD said to Moses, “I will do this very thing you have asked, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name.”
Read word by word - Exodus 34:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”
Read word by word - Numbers 11:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Moses asked the LORD, “Why have You brought this trouble on Your servant? Why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid upon me the burden of all these people?
Read word by word - Numbers 11:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”
Read word by word - Numbers 32:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“If we have found favor in your sight,” they said, “let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 24:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.
Read word by word - Judges 6:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Gideon answered, “If I have found favor in Your sight, give me a sign that it is You speaking with me.
Read word by word - Ruth 2:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go into the fields and glean heads of grain after someone in whose sight I may find favor.” “Go ahead, my daughter,” Naomi replied.
Read word by word - Ruth 2:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
At this, she fell on her face, bowing low to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me, even though I am a foreigner?”
Read word by word - Ruth 2:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“My lord,” she said, “may I continue to find favor in your eyes, for you have comforted and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your servant girls.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 1:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“May your maidservant find favor with you,” said Hannah. Then she went on her way, and she began to eat, and her face was no longer downcast.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 16:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Saul sent word to Jesse, saying, “Let David remain in my service, for I am pleased with him.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 20:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 20:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
saying, ‘Please let me go, because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go and see my brothers.’ That is why he has not come to the king’s table.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 25:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Ask your young men, and they will tell you. So let my young men find favor with you, for we have come on the day of a feast. Please give whatever you can spare to your servants and to your son David.’”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 27:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let me be assigned a place in one of the outlying towns, so I can live there. For why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 14:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Joab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 15:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the king said to Zadok, “Return the ark of God to the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, He will bring me back and let me see both it and His dwelling place again.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 16:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king said to Ziba, “All that belongs to Mephibosheth is now yours!” “I humbly bow before you,” said Ziba. “May I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king!”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 11:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
There Hadad found such great favor in the sight of Pharaoh that he gave to him in marriage the sister of Queen Tahpenes, his own wife.
Read word by word - Esther 2:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle from whom Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter. And when it was her turn to go to the king, she did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the king’s trusted official in charge of the harem, had advised. And Esther found favor in the eyes of everyone who saw her.
Read word by word - Esther 2:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And the king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she found grace and favor in his sight more than all of the other virgins. So he placed the royal crown upon her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.
Read word by word - Esther 5:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
As soon as the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she found favor in his sight. The king extended the gold scepter in his hand toward Esther, and she approached and touched the tip of the scepter.
Read word by word - Esther 5:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, may the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for them. Then I will answer the king’s question.”
Read word by word - Esther 7:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my request.
Read word by word - Esther 8:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.
Read word by word - Psalms 45:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You are the most handsome of men; grace has anointed your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 45.3
- Psalms 84:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 84.12
- Proverbs 1:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.
Read word by word - Proverbs 3:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.
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