Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H2604
חֲנַן
chanankhan-an'
be gracious
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chănan
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2604is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2604
to favor or (causatively) to entreat
The King James renders it: shew mercy, make supplication.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chanan is rendered "be gracious". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 4:27Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”
Daniel 4:27בְּמִחַ֣ן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in Daniel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and imploring favor1
- by showing mercy to1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בְּמִחַ֣ן1
- וּמִתְחַנַּ֖ן1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · poal, participle · masculine singular1AC/VMrmsa
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1AR/Vqcc
Daniel
two uses
Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”
- בְּמִחַ֣ןbemichanpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: by showing mercy to
Then these men went as a group and found Daniel petitioning and imploring his God.
- וּמִתְחַנַּ֖ןumitchananconjunction (“and”) + verb · poal, participle · masculine singulartagged: and imploring favor
The letters
Gematria 108· 758 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.