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חַנּוּן

chanun · gracious

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2587 · appears 13 times in the Bible

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What it means

chanun (חַנּוּן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “gracious”.

Merciful: who shows favor to one in need. Said almost always of God.

How to say it

cha·nun

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. Who treats the needy kindly, like YHWH.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

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Where it appears

  • Exodus 22:27

    for it is his only covering; it is his cloak for his skin. In what shall he sleep? And when he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am gracious.

  • Exodus 34:6

    And YHWH passed by before him and proclaimed, “YHWH, YHWH, an El merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in loyal love and faithfulness,

  • 2 Chronicles 30:9

    For when you return to YHWH, your brothers and your sons will find mercy before their captors and return to this land; for YHWH your Elohim is gracious and merciful, and he will not turn away his face from you if you return to him.”

  • Nehemiah 9:17

    They refused to listen, and did not remember your wonders that you had done with them; and they hardened their neck and appointed a head to return to their servitude in their rebellion. But you are an Eloah of pardons, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, and you did not abandon them.

  • Nehemiah 9:31

    Yet in your many mercies you did not make an end of them nor abandon them, for a gracious and merciful El are you.

  • Psalms 86:15

    But you, Adonai, are an El merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in loyal love and faithfulness.

  • Psalms 103:8

    Merciful and gracious is YHWH, slow to anger and abounding in loyal love.

  • Psalms 111:4

    He has made a remembrance of his wonders; gracious and merciful is YHWH.

  • Psalms 112:4

    Light rises in the darkness for the upright; gracious and merciful and righteous.

  • Psalms 116:5

    Gracious is YHWH, and righteous, and our Elohim has compassion.

  • Psalms 145:8

    Gracious and merciful is YHWH, slow to anger and great in loyal love.

  • Joel 2:13

    And tear your heart, and not your garments, and return to YHWH your Elohim; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in loyal love, and relenting over the evil.

  • Jonah 4:2

    And he prayed to YHWH and said, “I beg you, YHWH, was this not my word while I was still in my land? That is why I hurried to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are El, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, and one who relents concerning evil.