techina · favor, plea

What it means

techina (תְּחִנָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “favor, plea”.

Favor, mercy that is granted; also the plea with which it is asked for.

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. A request asking for mercy.
2. The kind welcome or grace someone receives from another.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• supplication ×21
• favor ×2
• plea ×1
• supplications ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Joshua×1
• 1 Kings×9
• 2 Chronicles×5
• Ezra×1
• Psalms×3
• Jeremiah×5
• Daniel×1

• Joshua 11:20

  For it was from YHWH to make their heart obstinate to meet Israel in battle, in order that he might devote them to destruction, so that there would be no favor for them, but in order that he might destroy them, just as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• 1 Kings 8:28

  Yet turn to the prayer of your servant and to his supplication, YHWH my Elohim, to listen to the cry and to the prayer that your servant prays before you today;

• 1 Kings 8:30

  And listen to the supplication of your servant and of your people Israel, who pray toward this place; and you, listen in the place where you live, in the heavens; and listen and forgive.

• 1 Kings 8:38

  whatever prayer, whatever supplication that is made by any human being, by all your people Israel, when each knows the sore of his own heart and spreads out his hands toward this house,

• 1 Kings 8:45

  then listen in the heavens to their prayer and their supplication, and do justice for them.

• 1 Kings 8:49

  then listen in the heavens, the place where you live, to their prayer and their supplication, and do justice for them;

• 1 Kings 8:52

  May your eyes be open to the supplication of your servant and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them in all for which they call to you.

• 1 Kings 8:54

  And it happened, when Solomon finished praying to YHWH all this prayer and supplication, that he rose from before the altar of YHWH, from kneeling on his knees, with his hands spread out toward the heavens.

• 1 Kings 9:3

  And YHWH said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication with which you made supplication before me; I have consecrated this house that you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.

• 2 Chronicles 6:19

  Turn to the prayer of your servant and to his supplication, YHWH my Elohim, to listen to the cry and to the prayer that your servant prays before you,

• 2 Chronicles 6:29

  whatever prayer, whatever supplication that is made by any human being or by all your people Israel, who know, each his own sore and his own pain, and spread out his hands toward this house,

• 2 Chronicles 6:35

  then listen from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and do justice for them.

• 2 Chronicles 6:39

  then listen from the heavens, from the place where you live, their prayer and their supplications, and do justice for them, and forgive your people who have sinned against you.

• 2 Chronicles 33:13

  He prayed to him, and he let himself be entreated by him, heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that YHWH is Elohim.

• Ezra 9:8

  And now, for a brief moment there has been favor from YHWH our Elohim, to leave us escapees, and to give us a peg in his holy place, that our Elohim may brighten our eyes and give us a little life in our servitude.

• Psalms 6:9

  YHWH has heard my plea; YHWH receives my prayer.

• Psalms 55:1

  For the director. With stringed instruments. A maskil of David. Give ear, Elohim, to my prayer, and do not hide yourself from my supplication.

• Psalms 119:170

  Let my supplication come before you; according to your saying deliver me.

• Jeremiah 36:7

  Perhaps their supplication will fall before YHWH, and they will turn back, each one from his evil way, for great is the anger and the fury that YHWH has spoken against this people.”

• Jeremiah 37:20

  And now, hear, please, my lord the king; please let my supplication fall before you, and do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, that I may not die there.”

• Jeremiah 38:26

  then you shall say to them, ‘I was letting my supplication fall before the king not to send me back to the house of Jonathan to die there.’”

• Jeremiah 42:2

  and they said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication fall before you, and pray for us to YHWH your Elohim, for all this remnant —for we are left a few out of many, as your eyes see us—

• Jeremiah 42:9

  and he said to them, “Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, to whom you sent me to let your supplication fall before him:

• Daniel 9:20

  And while I was still speaking and praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before YHWH my Elohim for the holy mountain of my Elohim,

And 1 more times.