# H2603 חָנַן

חָנַן (chânan), Strong’s H2603: properly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore (i.e. move to favor by petition) KJV: beseech, [idiom] fair, (be, find…

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*chânan* — properly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore (i.e. move to favor by petition)

KJV: beseech, [idiom] fair, (be, find, shew) favour(-able), be (deal, give, grant…

Occurs 78 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [חָנַן] be loathsome—only Jb 19:17
- חָנַן vb
- חָנַן vb. shew favour, be gracious
- Qal favour, shew favour
- Niph. be pitied
- Po‛el direct favour to
- Hoph. be shewn favour, consideration
- Hithp. seek or implore favour

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 33:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/33?v=5) — He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?” He said, “The children…
- [Genesis 33:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/33?v=11) — Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He…
- [Genesis 42:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/42?v=21) — They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul…
- [Genesis 43:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/43?v=29) — He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of…
- [Exodus 33:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/33?v=19) — He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the LORD’s name before you. I will be gracious…
- [Numbers 6:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/6?v=25) — The LORD make his face to shine on you, and be gracious to you.
- [Deuteronomy 3:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/3?v=23) — I begged GOD at that time, saying,
- [Deuteronomy 7:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/7?v=2) — and when the LORD your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You…
- [Deuteronomy 28:50](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/28?v=50) — a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young.
- [Judges 21:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/21?v=22) — It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them…