Word Study · Strong's H2580 · Hebrew
חֵן
chen
khane
Strong's 1890 spelling: chên
“graciousness, i.e. subjective (kindness, favor) or objective (beauty)”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
graciousness, i.e. subjective (kindness, favor) or objective (beauty)
Rendered in the KJV as
favour, grace(-ious), pleasant, precious, (well-) favoured.
- 69occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 16 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 17inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 69 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 17
- חֵ֖ן18
- חֵן֙13
- חֵ֥ן8
- חֵ֣ן6
- חֵ֤ן6
- חֵ֑ן4
- חֵ֛ן2
- חֵ֭ן2
- חֵ֜ן2
- הַ֭חֵן1
- וְ֝חֵ֗ן1
- חֵן֮1
and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.
How it is rendered · 8
- favor54
- grace7
- [the] favor of3
- [are] favor1
- [the] grace of1
- and grace1
- favor his1
- the grace1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 5
- noun · masculine singular61
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)5
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNcmsa · 61
- HNcmsc · 5
- HC/Ncmsa · 1
- HNcmsc/Sp3ms · 1
- HTd/Ncmsa · 1
All 69, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
- Genesis14 of 69 · 20%
- Proverbs13 of 69 · 19%
- Exodus9 of 69 · 13%
- 1 Samuel6 of 69 · 9%
- Esther6 of 69 · 9%
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Genesis14 occurrences
- Genesis 6:8חֵ֖ןchennoun · masculine singularNoah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.here: favor
- Genesis 18:3חֵן֙chennoun · masculine singular“My lord,” said Abraham, “if I have found favor in your sight, please do not pass your servant by.here: favor
- Genesis 19:19חֵן֮chennoun · masculine singularYour 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.here: favor
- Genesis 30:27חֵ֖ןchennoun · masculine singularBut 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.”here: favor
- Genesis 32:5חֵ֖ןchennoun · masculine singularI 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.’”here: favor
- Genesis 33:8חֵ֖ןchennoun · masculine singular“What do you mean by sending this whole company to meet me?” asked Esau. “To find favor in your sight, my lord,” Jacob answered.here: favor
- Genesis 33:10חֵן֙chennoun · masculine singularBut 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.here: favor
- Genesis 33:15חֵ֖ןchennoun · masculine singular“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.”here: favor
- Genesis 34:11חֵ֖ןchennoun · masculine singularThen Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Grant me this favor, and I will give you whatever you ask.here: favor
- Genesis 39:4חֵ֛ןchennoun · masculine singularJoseph 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.here: favor
- Genesis 39:21חִנּ֔וֹchinonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singularthe LORD was with him and extended kindness to him, granting him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.here: favor his
- Genesis 47:25חֵן֙chennoun · masculine singular“You have saved our lives,” they said. “We have found favor in our lord’s eyes, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”here: favor
- Genesis 47:29חֵן֙chennoun · masculine singularWhen 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,here: favor
- Genesis 50:4חֵן֙chennoun · masculine singularWhen the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please tell Pharaoh thathere: favor
Exodus9 occurrences
- Exodus 3:21חֵ֥ןchennoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)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.here: [the] favor of
- Exodus 11:3חֵ֥ןchennoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)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.here: [the] favor of
- Exodus 12:36חֵ֥ןchennoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)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.here: [the] favor of
- Exodus 33:12חֵ֖ןchennoun · masculine singularThen 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.’here: favor
- Exodus 33:13חֵ֜ןchennoun · masculine singularNow 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.”here: favor
- Exodus 33:13חֵ֖ןchennoun · masculine singularNow 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.”here: favor
- Exodus 33:16חֵ֤ןchennoun · masculine singularFor 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?”here: favor
- Exodus 33:17חֵן֙chennoun · masculine singularSo 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.”here: favor
- Exodus 34:9חֵ֤ןchennoun · masculine singular“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.”here: favor
Numbers3 occurrences
- Numbers 11:11חֵ֖ןchennoun · masculine singularSo 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?here: favor
- Numbers 11:15חֵ֖ןchennoun · masculine singularIf 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.”here: favor
- Numbers 32:5חֵן֙chennoun · masculine singular“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.”here: favor
Judges1 occurrence
Ruth3 occurrences
- Ruth 2:2חֵ֖ןchennoun · masculine singularAnd 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.here: favor
- Ruth 2:10חֵ֤ןchennoun · masculine singularAt 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?”here: favor
- Ruth 2:13חֵ֨ןchennoun · masculine singular“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.”here: favor
1 Samuel6 occurrences
- 1 Samuel 1:18חֵ֖ןchennoun · masculine singular“May your maidservant find favor with you,” said Hannah. Then she went on her way, and she began eating again, and her face was no longer downcast.here: favor
- 1 Samuel 16:22חֵ֖ןchennoun · masculine singularThen Saul sent word to Jesse, saying, “Let David remain in my service, for I am pleased with him.”here: favor
- 1 Samuel 20:3חֵן֙chennoun · masculine singularBut 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.”here: favor
- 1 Samuel 20:29חֵן֙chennoun · masculine singularsaying, ‘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 did not come to the king’s table.”here: favor
- 1 Samuel 25:8חֵן֙chennoun · masculine singularAsk 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 afford to your servants and to your son David.’”here: favor
- 1 Samuel 27:5חֵ֤ןchennoun · masculine singularThen 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?”here: favor
2 Samuel3 occurrences
- 2 Samuel 14:22חֵ֤ןchennoun · masculine singularJoab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor with you, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”here: favor
- 2 Samuel 15:25חֵן֙chennoun · masculine singularThen 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.here: favor
- 2 Samuel 16:4חֵ֥ןchennoun · masculine singularSo 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!”here: favor
Esther6 occurrences
- Esther 2:15חֵ֔ןchennoun · masculine singularNow 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.here: favor
- Esther 2:17חֵ֥ןchennoun · masculine singularAnd 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.here: favor
- Esther 5:2חֵ֖ןchennoun · masculine singularAs 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.here: favor
- Esther 5:8חֵ֜ןchennoun · masculine singularIf 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.”here: favor
- Esther 7:3חֵ֤ןchennoun · masculine singularQueen 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.here: favor
- Esther 8:5חֵ֣ןchennoun · masculine singular“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.here: favor
Psalms2 occurrences
- Psalms 45:2חֵ֭ןchennoun · masculine singularYou are the most handsome of men; grace has anointed your lips, since God has blessed you forever.here: grace
- Psalms 84:11חֵ֣ןchennoun · masculine singularFor 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.here: favor
Proverbs13 occurrences
- Proverbs 1:9חֵ֓ןchennoun · masculine singularFor they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.here: favor
- Proverbs 3:4חֵ֖ןchennoun · masculine singularThen you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.here: favor
- Proverbs 3:22וְ֝חֵ֗ןvechenconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singularThey will be life to your soul and adornment to your neck.here: and grace
- Proverbs 3:34חֵֽן׃chennoun · masculine singularHe mocks the mockers, but gives grace to the humble.here: favor
- Proverbs 4:9חֵ֑ןchennoun · masculine singularShe will set a garland of grace on your head; she will present you with a crown of beauty.”here: grace
- Proverbs 5:19חֵ֥ןchennoun · masculine singularA loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.here: grace
- Proverbs 11:16חֵ֭ןchennoun · masculine singularA gracious woman attains honor, but ruthless men gain only wealth.here: grace
- Proverbs 13:15חֵ֑ןchennoun · masculine singularGood understanding wins favor, but the way of the faithless is difficult.here: favor
- Proverbs 17:8חֵ֣ןchennoun · masculine singularA bribe is a charm to its giver; wherever he turns, he succeeds.here: favor
- Proverbs 22:1חֵ֣ןchennoun · masculine singularA good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.here: favor
- Proverbs 22:11חֵ֥ןchennoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)He who loves a pure heart and gracious lips will have the king for a friend.here: [the] grace of
- Proverbs 28:23חֵ֣ןchennoun · masculine singularHe who rebukes a man will later find more favor than one who flatters with his tongue.here: favor
- Proverbs 31:30הַ֭חֵןhachenthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singularCharm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.here: the grace
Ecclesiastes2 occurrences
- Ecclesiastes 9:11חֵ֑ןchennoun · masculine singularI saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happen to all.here: favor
- Ecclesiastes 10:12חֵ֑ןchennoun · masculine singularThe words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool consume him.here: [are] favor
Zechariah3 occurrences
- Zechariah 4:7חֵ֥ןchennoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain. Then he will bring forth the capstone accompanied by shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”here: grace
- Zechariah 4:7חֵ֖ןchennoun · masculine singularWhat are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain. Then he will bring forth the capstone accompanied by shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”here: grace
- Zechariah 12:10חֵן֙chennoun · masculine singularThen I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.here: favor
Same headword in Strong's