chanef · godless, profane

What it means

chanef (חָנֵף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “godless, profane”.

Godless: one who lives without regard for God; defiled, profane.

How to say it

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. Someone who lives without God and pretends.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Job×8
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×3

• Job 8:13

  So are the paths of all who forget El, and the hope of the godless perishes,

• Job 13:16

  This too will be my salvation, for no godless one will come before him.

• Job 15:34

  For the community of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.

• Job 17:8

  The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent rouses himself against the godless.

• Job 20:5

  the shout of joy of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless is for a moment?

• Job 27:8

  For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when Eloah draws out his life?

• Job 34:30

  so that a godless human being may not reign, and there be no snares for the people.

• Job 36:13

  And the godless in heart harbor anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.

• Psalms 35:16

  Like the godless who mock for a cake, they gnashed at me their teeth.

• Proverbs 11:9

  With his mouth the godless destroys his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.

• Isaiah 9:17

  Therefore Adonai does not rejoice over its young men, and on its orphans and its widows he has no compassion; for every one of them is godless and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks infamy. For all this his anger has not turned back, and his hand is still stretched out.

• Isaiah 10:6

  Against a godless nation I send it, and against the people of my fury I command it, to take spoil and to seize plunder, and to make it a thing trampled like the mud of the streets.

• Isaiah 33:14

  Sinners in Zion are in dread; trembling has seized the godless: “Who among us can reside with the devouring fire? Who among us can reside with eternal burnings?”