1) favour, grace, charm 1a) favour, grace, elegance 1b) favour, acceptance
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H2580 — חֵן
chen · favor · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 6:8 · חֵ֖ןNoah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.Genesis 18:3 · חֵן֙“My lord,” said Abraham, “if I have found favor in your sight, please do not pass your servant by.Genesis 19:19 · חֵן֮Your 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.Genesis 30:27 · חֵ֖ןBut 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.”Genesis 32:5 · חֵ֖ןI 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.’”Genesis 33:8 · חֵ֖ן“What do you mean by sending this whole company to meet me?” asked Esau. “To find favor in your sight, my lord,” Jacob answered.Genesis 33:10 · חֵן֙But 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.Genesis 33:15 · חֵ֖ן“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.”Genesis 34:11 · חֵ֖ןThen Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Grant me this favor, and I will give you whatever you ask.Genesis 39:4 · חֵ֛ןJoseph 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.Genesis 39:21 · חִנּ֔וֹthe LORD was with him and extended kindness to him, granting him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.Genesis 47:25 · חֵן֙“You have saved our lives,” they said. “We have found favor in our lord’s eyes, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”Genesis 47:29 · חֵן֙When 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,Genesis 50:4 · חֵן֙When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please tell Pharaoh thatExodus 3:21 · חֵ֥ןAnd I will grant this people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that when you leave, you will not go away empty-handed.Exodus 11:3 · חֵ֥ןAnd 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.Exodus 12:36 · חֵ֥ןAnd 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.Exodus 33:12 · חֵ֖ןThen 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.’Exodus 33:13 · חֵ֜ן · חֵ֖ןNow 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.”Exodus 33:16 · חֵ֤ןFor 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?”Exodus 33:17 · חֵן֙So 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.”Exodus 34:9 · חֵ֤ן“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.”Numbers 11:11 · חֵ֖ןSo 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?Numbers 11:15 · חֵ֖ןIf 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.”Numbers 32:5 · חֵן֙“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.”Deuteronomy 24:1 · חֵ֣ןIf a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.Judges 6:17 · חֵ֖ןGideon answered, “If I have found favor in Your sight, give me a sign that it is You speaking with me.Ruth 2:2 · חֵ֖ןAnd 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.Ruth 2:10 · חֵ֤ןAt 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?”Ruth 2:13 · חֵ֨ן“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.”1 Samuel 1:18 · חֵ֖ן“May your maidservant find favor with you,” said Hannah. Then she went on her way, and she began to eat, and her face was no longer downcast.1 Samuel 16:22 · חֵ֖ןThen Saul sent word to Jesse, saying, “Let David remain in my service, for I am pleased with him.”1 Samuel 20:3 · חֵן֙But 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.”1 Samuel 20:29 · חֵן֙saying, ‘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 has not come to the king’s table.”1 Samuel 25:8 · חֵן֙Ask 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 spare to your servants and to your son David.’”1 Samuel 27:5 · חֵ֤ןThen 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?”2 Samuel 14:22 · חֵ֤ןJoab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”2 Samuel 15:25 · חֵן֙Then 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.2 Samuel 16:4 · חֵ֥ןSo 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!”1 Kings 11:19 · חֵ֛ןThere Hadad found such great favor in the sight of Pharaoh that he gave to him in marriage the sister of Queen Tahpenes, his own wife.Esther 2:15 · חֵ֔ןNow 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.Esther 2:17 · חֵ֥ןAnd 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.Esther 5:2 · חֵ֖ןAs 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.Esther 5:8 · חֵ֜ןIf 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.”Esther 7:3 · חֵ֤ןQueen 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.Esther 8:5 · חֵ֣ן“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.Psalm 45:2 · חֵ֭ןYou are the most handsome of men; grace has anointed your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.Psalm 84:11 · חֵ֣ןFor 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.Proverbs 1:9 · חֵ֓ןFor they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.Proverbs 3:4 · חֵ֖ןThen you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.Proverbs 3:22 · וְ֝חֵ֗ןThey will be life to your soul and adornment to your neck.Proverbs 3:34 · חֵֽן׃He mocks the mockers, but gives grace to the humble.Proverbs 4:9 · חֵ֑ןShe will set a garland of grace on your head; she will present you with a crown of beauty.”Proverbs 5:19 · חֵ֥ןA loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.Proverbs 11:16 · חֵ֭ןA gracious woman attains honor, but ruthless men gain only wealth.Proverbs 13:15 · חֵ֑ןGood understanding wins favor, but the way of the faithless is difficult.Proverbs 17:8 · חֵ֣ןA bribe is a charm to its giver; wherever he turns, he succeeds.Proverbs 22:1 · חֵ֣ןA good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.Proverbs 22:11 · חֵ֥ןHe who loves a pure heart and gracious lips will have the king for a friend.Proverbs 28:23 · חֵ֣ןHe who rebukes a man will later find more favor than one who flatters with his tongue.Proverbs 31:30 · הַ֭חֵןCharm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.Ecclesiastes 9:11 · חֵ֑ןI 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.Ecclesiastes 10:12 · חֵ֑ןThe words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool consume him.Jeremiah 31:2 · חֵן֙This is what the LORD says: “The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest.”Nahum 3:4 · חֵ֖ןbecause of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.Zechariah 4:7 · חֵ֥ן · חֵ֖ןWhat 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!’”Zechariah 12:10 · חֵן֙Then 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.