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Strong's H2603 חָנַן (chanan)

Chanan means “beseech” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G2603 — katabrabeuo (“beguile of reward”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H2603
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 73
Books 19

Strong's H2603 Quick Answer

Strong's H2603 חָנַן (chanan) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. chanan (khaw-nan') v. 1. (properly) to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior 2. to favor, bestow It has 73 linked Bible usages across 19 books. Visible English usage signals include me, when, and beseech. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
chanan (khaw-nan') v. 1. (properly) to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior 2. to favor, bestow
Usage
73 linked usages
Books
19 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
me, when, and beseech

Meaning and Definition

chanan (khaw-nan') v. 1. (properly) to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior 2. to favor, bestow 3. causatively to implore (i.e. move to favor by petition) [a primitive root] KJV: beseech, X fair, (be, find, shew) favour(-able), be (deal, give, grant (gracious(-ly), intreat, (be) merciful, have (shew) mercy (on, upon), have pity upon, pray, make supplication, X very. Compare: H2583

Original Word
חָנַן
Transliteration
chanan
Derivation
Root: חנן
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2603. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

be gracious

Usage: 1) to be gracious, show favour, pity 1a) (Qal) to show favour, be gracious 1b) (Niphal) to be pitied 1c) (Piel) to make gracious, make favourable, be gracious 1d) (Poel) to direct favour to, have mercy on 1e) (Hophal) to be shown favour, be shown consideration 1f) (Hithpael) to seek favour, implore favour

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How Strong's H2603 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chanan, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

How Strong's H2603 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 73 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H2603 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H2603 in the Old Testament

73 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 33:5 KJV

And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.

Genesis 33:11 KJV

Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.

Genesis 42:21 KJV

And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

Usage Excerpts

First 73 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2603.

Genesis 33:5 Old Testament, KJV
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.
Genesis 33:11 Old Testament, KJV
Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.
Genesis 42:21 Old Testament, KJV
And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Genesis 43:29 Old Testament, KJV
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.
Exodus 33:19 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
Numbers 6:25 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
Deuteronomy 3:23 Old Testament, KJV
And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,
Deuteronomy 7:2 Old Testament, KJV
And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
Deuteronomy 28:50 Old Testament, KJV
A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
Judges 21:22 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.
2 Samuel 12:22 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
1 Kings 8:33 Old Testament, KJV
When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:
1 Kings 8:47 Old Testament, KJV
Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
1 Kings 8:59 Old Testament, KJV
And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:
1 Kings 9:3 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
2 Kings 1:13 Old Testament, KJV
And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.
2 Kings 13:23 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
2 Chronicles 6:24 Old Testament, KJV
And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house;
2 Chronicles 6:37 Old Testament, KJV
Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;
Esther 4:8 Old Testament, KJV
Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.
Esther 8:3 Old Testament, KJV
And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.
Job 8:5 Old Testament, KJV
If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
Job 9:15 Old Testament, KJV
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
Job 19:16 Old Testament, KJV
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
Job 19:17 Old Testament, KJV
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
Job 19:21 Old Testament, KJV
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Job 33:24 Old Testament, KJV
Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
Psalms 4:1 Old Testament, KJV
Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
Psalms 6:2 Old Testament, KJV
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
Psalms 9:13 Old Testament, KJV
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
Psalms 25:16 Old Testament, KJV
Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
Psalms 26:11 Old Testament, KJV
But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.
Psalms 27:7 Old Testament, KJV
Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
Psalms 30:8 Old Testament, KJV
I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.
Psalms 30:10 Old Testament, KJV
Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.
Psalms 31:9 Old Testament, KJV
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
Psalms 37:21 Old Testament, KJV
The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
Psalms 37:26 Old Testament, KJV
He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.
Psalms 41:4 Old Testament, KJV
I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.
Psalms 41:10 Old Testament, KJV
But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.
Psalms 51:1 Old Testament, KJV
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
Psalms 56:1 Old Testament, KJV
Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
Psalms 57:1 Old Testament, KJV
Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
Psalms 59:5 Old Testament, KJV
Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
Psalms 67:1 Old Testament, KJV
God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.
Psalms 86:3 Old Testament, KJV
Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.
Psalms 86:16 Old Testament, KJV
O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
Psalms 102:13 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
Psalms 102:14 Old Testament, KJV
For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
Psalms 109:12 Old Testament, KJV
Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
Psalms 112:5 Old Testament, KJV
A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
Psalms 119:29 Old Testament, KJV
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
Psalms 119:58 Old Testament, KJV
I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.
Psalms 119:132 Old Testament, KJV
Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.
Psalms 123:2 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
Psalms 123:3 Old Testament, KJV
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Psalms 142:1 Old Testament, KJV
I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.
Proverbs 14:21 Old Testament, KJV
He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
Proverbs 14:31 Old Testament, KJV
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
Proverbs 19:17 Old Testament, KJV
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Proverbs 21:10 Old Testament, KJV
The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.
Proverbs 26:25 Old Testament, KJV
When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.
Proverbs 28:8 Old Testament, KJV
He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
Isaiah 26:10 Old Testament, KJV
Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
Isaiah 27:11 Old Testament, KJV
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
Isaiah 30:18 Old Testament, KJV
And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
Isaiah 30:19 Old Testament, KJV
For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
Isaiah 33:2 Old Testament, KJV
O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
Jeremiah 22:23 Old Testament, KJV
O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
Lamentations 4:16 Old Testament, KJV
The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
Hosea 12:4 Old Testament, KJV
Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us;
Amos 5:15 Old Testament, KJV
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
Malachi 1:9 Old Testament, KJV
And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the LORD of hosts.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2603, grouped by book.

Genesis 4 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 3 usages, Old Testament
Judges 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Kings 4 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 2 usages, Old Testament
Esther 2 usages, Old Testament
Job 6 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 30 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 6 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 5 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H2603 FAQ

What does chanan (חָנַן) mean?

Chanan (Strong's H2603) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "beseech". chanan (khaw-nan') v. 1. (properly) to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior 2. to favor, bestow

How many times is chanan (חָנַן) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 73 linked usages for Strong's H2603 across 19 books.

Where can I study chanan (חָנַן) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2603 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate chanan (חָנַן)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as me, when, and beseech. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.