חָנַן (cha.nan) means “be gracious” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: khaw-nan' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
חָנַן · cha.nan · be gracious
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
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חָנַן · cha.nan · be loathsome
to be loathsome
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a primitive root (compare H2583 (חָנָה)); properly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore (i.e. move to favor by petition)
KJV glosses: beseech, [idiom] 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, [idiom] very.
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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 |
|---|---|
| be merciful to me | 5 |
| be gracious to me | 3 |
| for mercy | 3 |
| and have mercy | 2 |
| and plead | 2 |
| and pleading | 2 |
| be gracious to us | 2 |
| favor | 2 |
| have mercy | 2 |
| have mercy on me | 2 |
| mercy | 2 |
| to be gracious | 2 |
| and be gracious | 1 |
| and be gracious to you | 1 |
| and be merciful to me | 1 |
| and begged | 1 |
| and begged him | 1 |
| and graciously grant me | 1 |
| and i am loathsome | 1 |
| and show me mercy | 1 |
| and sought his favor | 1 |
| are gracious | 1 |
| be gracious to you | 1 |
| be merciful | 1 |
| but whoever is kind | 1 |
| do us a favor | 1 |
| finds no favor | 1 |
| for one who is kind | 1 |
| generous | 1 |
| graciously | 1 |
| has been gracious | 1 |
| has graciously given | 1 |
| have mercy on us | 1 |
| have pity | 1 |
| have pity on me | 1 |
| he shows us mercy | 1 |
| he who shows kindness | 1 |
| he will surely be gracious | 1 |
| i also pleaded | 1 |
| i begged | 1 |
| i have made my petition | 1 |
| i have mercy | 1 |
| i will have mercy | 1 |
| implore his favor | 1 |
| kindness | 1 |
| may be gracious | 1 |
| pity | 1 |
| show me grace | 1 |
| take pity | 1 |
| though grace is shown | 1 |
| though i implore | 1 |
| to be gracious to you | 1 |
| to favor | 1 |
| to show her favor | 1 |
| was gracious | 1 |
| when he pleaded | 1 |
| who is generous | 1 |
| will be gracious | 1 |
| will he be gracious | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| be merciful | 8 |
| have mercy | 8 |
| and make supplication | 3 |
| and besought | 2 |
| be gracious | 2 |
| will be gracious | 2 |
| and favour | 1 |
| and have mercy | 1 |
| and i besought | 1 |
| and made supplication | 1 |
| and make thy supplication | 1 |
| and pray | 1 |
| be not merciful | 1 |
| but he that hath mercy | 1 |
| did i make my supplication | 1 |
| fair | 1 |
| findeth no favour | 1 |
| gracious | 1 |
| graciously | 1 |
| hath dealt graciously with me | 1 |
| hath graciously given | 1 |
| have pity | 1 |
| he that hath pity | 1 |
| he will be very | 1 |
| him hath mercy | 1 |
| how gracious | 1 |
| i intreated | 1 |
| i made supplication | 1 |
| i would make supplication | 1 |
| it for him that will pity | 1 |
| let favour be shewed | 1 |
| me and be merciful | 1 |
| merciful | 1 |
| nor shew favour | 1 |
| sheweth favour | 1 |
| sheweth mercy | 1 |
| that he may be gracious | 1 |
| that he will be gracious | 1 |
| that thou hast made | 1 |
| thee and will be gracious | 1 |
| thee unto me and have mercy | 1 |
| them will shew them no favour | 1 |
| then he is gracious | 1 |
| they favoured | 1 |
| thou upon me and be merciful | 1 |
| to favour | 1 |
| to make supplication | 1 |
| to whom i will be gracious | 1 |
| until that he have mercy | 1 |
| unto him neither let there be any to favour | 1 |
| unto me and have mercy | 1 |
| unto them be favourable | 1 |
| upon me have pity | 1 |
| upon thee and be gracious | 1 |
| was gracious | 1 |
| when he besought | 1 |
| wherewith i have made supplication | 1 |
| with them nor shew mercy | 1 |
Page 1 of 2. 73 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?” Jacob answered, “These are the children God has graciously given your servant.”
Read word by wordPlease accept my gift that was brought to you, because God has been gracious to me and I have all I need.” So Jacob pressed him until he accepted.
Read word by wordThen they said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”
Read word by wordWhen Joseph looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his own mother’s son, he asked, “Is this your youngest brother, the one you told me about?” Then he declared, “May God be gracious to you, my son.”
Read word by word“I will cause all My goodness to pass before you,” the LORD replied, “and I will proclaim My name—the LORD—in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
Read word by wordmay the LORD cause His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
Read word by wordAt that time I also pleaded with the LORD:
Read word by wordand when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
Read word by worda ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.
Read word by wordWhen their fathers or brothers come to us to complain, we will tell them, ‘Do us a favor by helping them, since we did not get wives for each of them in the war. Since you did not actually give them your daughters, you have no guilt.’”
Read word by wordDavid answered, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let him live.’
Read word by wordWhen Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading with You in this temple,
Read word by wordand when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’
Read word by wordAnd may these words with which I have made my petition before the LORD be near to the LORD our God day and night, so that He may uphold the cause of His servant and of His people Israel as each day requires,
Read word by wordAnd the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
Read word by wordSo the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. And the third captain went up, fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, “Man of God, may my life and the lives of these fifty servants of yours please be precious in your sight.
Read word by wordBut the LORD was gracious to Israel and had compassion on them, and He turned toward them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And to this day, the LORD has been unwilling to destroy them or cast them from His presence.
Read word by wordWhen Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading before You in this temple,
Read word by wordand when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’
Read word by wordMordecai also gave Hathach a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for the destruction of the Jews, to show and explain to Esther, urging her to approach the king, implore his favor, and plead before him for her people.
Read word by wordAnd once again, Esther addressed the king. She fell at his feet weeping and begged him to revoke the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.
Read word by wordBut if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,
Read word by wordFor even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.
Read word by wordI call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth.
Read word by wordMy breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
Read word by wordHave pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
Read word by wordto be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,’
Read word by wordFor the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved my distress; show me grace and hear my prayer.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 4.2
Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 6.3
Be merciful to me, O LORD; see how my enemies afflict me! Lift me up from the gates of death,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.14
Turn to me and be gracious, for I am lonely and afflicted.
Read word by wordBut I will walk with integrity; redeem me and be merciful to me.
Read word by wordHear, O LORD, my voice when I call; be merciful and answer me.
Read word by wordTo You, O LORD, I called, and I begged my Lord for mercy:
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 30.9
Hear me, O LORD, and have mercy; O LORD, be my helper.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 30.11
Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 31.10
The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous are gracious and giving.
Read word by wordThey are ever generous and quick to lend, and their children are a blessing.
Read word by wordI said, “O LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against You.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 41.5
But You, O LORD, be gracious to me and raise me up, that I may repay them.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 41.11
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 51.3
For the choirmaster. To the tune of “A Dove on Distant Oaks.” A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be merciful to me, O God, for men are hounding me; all day they press their attack.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 56.2
For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy, for in You my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of Your wings I will take shelter until the danger has passed.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 57.2
O LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, rouse Yourself to punish all the nations; show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 59.6
For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm. A song. May God be gracious to us and bless us, and cause His face to shine upon us, Selah
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 67.2
Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has His anger shut off His compassion?” Selah
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 77.10
Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I call to You all day long.
Read word by wordTurn to me and have mercy; grant Your strength to Your servant; save the son of Your maidservant.
Read word by wordYou will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor—the appointed time has come.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 102.14
For Your servants delight in her stones and take pity on her dust.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 102.15
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