# H2580 חֵן

חֵן (chên), Strong’s H2580: graciousness, i.e. subjective (kindness, favor) or objective (beauty) KJV: favour, grace(-ious), pleasant, precious, (well-) favoured.. Occurs 69 times.

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*chên* — graciousness, i.e. subjective (kindness, favor) or objective (beauty)

KJV: favour, grace(-ious), pleasant, precious, (well-) favoured.

Derived from [חָנַן chânan](https://besorah.bible/word/H2603) (to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferi)

Occurs 69 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חֵן n.m. favour, grace
- 1 favour, grace, elegance
- 2 favour, acceptance

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 6:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=8) — But Noah found favor in the LORD’s eyes.
- [Genesis 18:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=3) — and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.
- [Genesis 19:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=19) — See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown…
- [Genesis 30:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/30?v=27) — Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that the LORD has blessed me…
- [Genesis 32:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/32?v=6) — I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor…
- [Genesis 33:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/33?v=8) — Esau 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/33?v=10) — Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have…
- [Genesis 33:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/33?v=15) — Esau said, “Let me now leave with you some of the people who are with me.” He said, “Why? Let me find favor in the…
- [Genesis 34:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/34?v=11) — Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will…
- [Genesis 39:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/39?v=4) — Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and Potiphar made him overseer over his house, and all that he…