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 · חֵ֖ןBut Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.Genesis 18:3 · חֵן֙and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.Genesis 19:19 · חֵן֮See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.Genesis 30:27 · חֵ֖ןLaban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake.”Genesis 32:5 · חֵ֖ןI have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.’”Genesis 33:8 · חֵ֖ןEsau said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?” Jacob said, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.”Genesis 33:10 · חֵן֙Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.Genesis 33:15 · חֵ֖ןEsau said, “Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me.” He said, “Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”Genesis 34:11 · חֵ֖ןShechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.Genesis 39:4 · חֵ֛ןJoseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.Genesis 39:21 · חִנּ֔וֹBut Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.Genesis 47:25 · חֵן֙They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”Genesis 47:29 · חֵן֙The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,Genesis 50:4 · חֵן֙When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,Exodus 3:21 · חֵ֥ןI will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.Exodus 11:3 · חֵ֥ןYahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the sight of the people.Exodus 12:36 · חֵ֥ןYahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They despoiled the Egyptians.Exodus 33:12 · חֵ֖ןMoses said to Yahweh, “Behold, you tell me, ‘Bring up this people:’ and you haven’t let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’Exodus 33:13 · חֵ֜ן · חֵ֖ןNow therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight: and consider that this nation is your people.”Exodus 33:16 · חֵ֤ןFor how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn’t it in that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?”Exodus 33:17 · חֵן֙Yahweh said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”Exodus 34:9 · חֵ֤ןHe said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us; although this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”Numbers 11:11 · חֵ֖ןMoses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated with your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?Numbers 11:15 · חֵ֖ןIf you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”Numbers 32:5 · חֵן֙They said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; don’t bring us over the Jordan.”Deuteronomy 24:1 · חֵ֣ןWhen a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.Judges 6:17 · חֵ֖ןHe said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.Ruth 2:2 · חֵ֖ןRuth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor.” She said to her, “Go, my daughter.”Ruth 2:10 · חֵ֤ןThen she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, since I am a foreigner?”Ruth 2:13 · חֵ֨ןThen she said, “Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your handmaid, though I am not as one of your handmaidens.”1 Samuel 1:18 · חֵ֖ןShe said, “Let your handmaid find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way, and ate; and her facial expression wasn’t sad any more.1 Samuel 16:22 · חֵ֖ןSaul sent to Jesse, saying, “Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight.”1 Samuel 20:3 · חֵן֙David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved:’ but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”1 Samuel 20:29 · חֵן֙He said, ‘Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city. My brother has commanded me to be there. Now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go away and see my brothers.’ Therefore he has not come to the king’s table.”1 Samuel 25:8 · חֵן֙Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore, let the young men find favor in your eyes; for we come in a good day. Please give whatever comes to your hand, to your servants, and to your son David.’”1 Samuel 27:5 · חֵ֤ןDavid said to Achish, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?”2 Samuel 14:22 · חֵ֤ןJoab fell to the ground on his face, showed respect, and blessed the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant.”2 Samuel 15:25 · חֵן֙The king said to Zadok, “Carry back the ark of God into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of Yahweh, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation;2 Samuel 16:4 · חֵ֥ןThen the king said to Ziba, “Behold, all that pertains to Mephibosheth is yours.” Ziba said, “I do obeisance. Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, O king.”1 Kings 11:19 · חֵ֛ןHadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.Esther 2:15 · חֵ֔ןNow when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.Esther 2:17 · חֵ֥ןThe king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.Esther 5:2 · חֵ֖ןWhen the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she obtained favor in his sight; and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. So Esther came near, and touched the top of the scepter.Esther 5:8 · חֵ֜ןIf I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said.”Esther 7:3 · חֵ֤ןThen Esther the queen answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.Esther 8:5 · חֵ֣ןShe said, “If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right to the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.Psalm 45:2 · חֵ֭ןYou are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.Psalm 84:11 · חֵ֣ןFor Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.Proverbs 1:9 · חֵ֓ןfor they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.Proverbs 3:4 · חֵ֖ןSo you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.Proverbs 3:22 · וְ֝חֵ֗ןso they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck.Proverbs 3:34 · חֵֽן׃Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.Proverbs 4:9 · חֵ֑ןShe will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you.”Proverbs 5:19 · חֵ֥ןA loving doe and a graceful deer—let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.Proverbs 11:16 · חֵ֭ןA gracious woman obtains honor, but violent men obtain riches.Proverbs 13:15 · חֵ֑ןGood understanding wins favor; but the way of the unfaithful is hard.Proverbs 17:8 · חֵ֣ןA bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns, he prospers.Proverbs 22:1 · חֵ֣ןA good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.Proverbs 22:11 · חֵ֥ןHe who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend.Proverbs 28:23 · חֵ֣ןOne who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.Proverbs 31:30 · הַ֭חֵןCharm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.Ecclesiastes 9:11 · חֵ֑ןI returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.Ecclesiastes 10:12 · חֵ֑ןThe words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.Jeremiah 31:2 · חֵן֙Thus says Yahweh, The people who were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.Nahum 3:4 · חֵ֖ןbecause of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.Zechariah 4:7 · חֵ֥ן · חֵ֖ןWho are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of ‘Grace, grace, to it!’”Zechariah 12:10 · חֵן֙I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.