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Lexicon :: Strong's H2580 - ḥēn

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חֵן
Transliteration
ḥēn
Pronunciation
khane
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
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TWOT Reference: TWOT- 694a

Strong’s Definitions

חֵן chên khane; from H2603; graciousness, i.e. subjective (kindness, favor) or objective (beauty):—favour, grace(-ious), pleasant, precious, (well-) favoured.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 69x

The KJV translates Strong's H2580 in the following manner: grace (38x), favour (26x), gracious (2x), pleasant (1x), precious (1x), wellfavoured (with H2896) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 69x
The KJV translates Strong's H2580 in the following manner: grace (38x), favour (26x), gracious (2x), pleasant (1x), precious (1x), wellfavoured (with H2896) (1x).

  1. favour, grace, charm

    1. favour, grace, elegance

    2. favour, acceptance

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חֵן chên khane; from H2603; graciousness, i.e. subjective (kindness, favor) or objective (beauty):—favour, grace(-ious), pleasant, precious, (well-) favoured.
STRONGS H2580: Abbreviations
† I. חֵן noun masculinePsalm 45:3 favour, grace; — ח׳ Genesis 6:8 + 67 times; suffix חִנּוֺ Genesis 39:21; —
1. favour, grace, elegance:
a. of form and appearance, of a woman || יֹ֑פִי Proverbs 31:30; אֵשֶׁת חֵן Proverbs 11:16; זונה טובת חן Nahum 3:4; of a doe Proverbs 5:19; precious stone אבן חן Proverbs 17:8; of ornaments Proverbs 1:9＝Proverbs 4:9; Proverbs 3:22.
b. of speech, lips Psalm 45:3; Proverbs 22:11; words Ecclesiastes 10:12.
2. favour, acceptance:
a. with men Proverbs 13:15; Proverbs 22:1; Ecclesiastes 9:11.
b. with God Zechariah 4:7 (twice in verse); Zechariah 12:10; chiefly in phrases:
מצא חן בעיני find favour in the eyes of:
(1) men Genesis 30:27; Genesis 32:6 [Genesis 32:5; Genesis 33:8, 10, 15; Genesis 34:11; Genesis 39:4; Genesis 47:25, 29; Genesis 50:4; Numbers 32:5 (all J); Deuteronomy 24:1; Ruth 2:2, 10, 13; 1 Samuel 1:18; 1 Samuel 16:22; 1 Samuel 20:3, 29; 1 Samuel 25:8; 1 Samuel 27:5; 2 Samuel 14:22; 2 Samuel 16:4; 1 Kings 11:19; Esther 5:8; Esther 7:3;
(2) of God Genesis 6:8; Genesis 18:3; Genesis 19:19; Exodus 33:12, 13 (twice in verse); Exodus 33:16, 17; Exodus 34:9; Numbers 11:11, 15 (all J); Judges 6:17; 2 Samuel 15:25; Proverbs 3:4; absolute מצא חן (with man) Proverbs 28:23; (with God) Jeremiah 31:2; מֹצא חן לפניו Esther 8:5 (i.e. of the king);
נתן חן בעיני give favour in the eyes of
(1) man Genesis 39:21; Exodus 3:21; Exodus 11:3; Exodus 12:36 (J); absolute נתן חן of man Psalm 84:12;
(2) of God Proverbs 3:34; נשׂא חֵן בְּעֵינֵי obtain favour in the eyes of Esther 2:15; of the king Esther 5:2; so וַתִּשָּׂאחֵֿן וָחֶסֶד לְפָנָיו Esther 2:17.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

6:8; 6:8; 18:3; 19:19; 30:27; 32:5; 33:8; 33:10; 33:15; 34:11; 39:4; 39:21; 39:21; 47:25; 47:29; 50:4

Exodus

3:21; 11:3; 12:36; 33:12; 33:13; 33:16; 33:17; 34:9

Numbers

11:11; 11:15; 32:5

Deuteronomy

24:1

Judges

6:17

Ruth

2:2; 2:10; 2:13

1 Samuel

1:18; 16:22; 20:3; 20:29; 25:8; 27:5

2 Samuel

14:22; 15:25; 16:4

1 Kings

11:19

Esther

2:15; 2:17; 5:2; 5:8; 7:3; 8:5

Psalms

45:3; 45:3; 84:12

Proverbs

1:9; 3:4; 3:22; 3:34; 4:9; 5:19; 11:16; 13:15; 17:8; 22:1; 22:11; 28:23; 31:30

Ecclesiastes

9:11; 10:12

Jeremiah

31:2

Nahum

3:4

Zechariah

4:7; 12:10

H2580

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Strong's Number H2580 matches the Hebrew חֵן (ḥēn),
which occurs 69 times in 67 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 6:8–Pro 3:4)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:8 - But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:3 - He said, “If I have found favor in your eyes, my lord,[fn] do not pass your servant by.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:19 - Your[fn] servant has found favor in your[fn] eyes, and you[fn] have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:27 - But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:5 - I have cattle and donkeys, sheep and goats, male and female servants. Now I am sending this message to my lord, that I may find favor in your eyes.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:8 - Esau asked, “What’s the meaning of all these flocks and herds I met?” “To find favor in your eyes, my lord,” he said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:10 - “No, please!” said Jacob. “If I have found favor in your eyes, accept this gift from me. For to see your face is like seeing the face of God, now that you have received me favorably.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:15 - Esau said, “Then let me leave some of my men with you.” “But why do that?” Jacob asked. “Just let me find favor in the eyes of my lord.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:11 - Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and I will give you whatever you ask.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:4 - Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:21 - the LORD was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:25 - “You have saved our lives,” they said. “May we find favor in the eyes of our lord; we will be in bondage to Pharaoh.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:29 - When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called for his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise that you will show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:4 - When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court, “If I have found favor in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:21 - “And I will make the Egyptians favorably disposed toward this people, so that when you leave you will not go empty-handed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:3 - (The LORD made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and Moses himself was highly regarded in Egypt by Pharaoh’s officials and by the people.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:36 - The LORD had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:12 - Moses said to the LORD, “You have been telling me, ‘Lead these people,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You have said, ‘I know you by name and you have found favor with me.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:13 - If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:16 - How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:17 - And the LORD said to Moses, “I will do the very thing you have asked, because I am pleased with you and I know you by name.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:9 - “Lord,” he said, “if I have found favor in your eyes, then let the Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wickedness and our sin, and take us as your inheritance.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:11 - He asked the LORD, “Why have you brought this trouble on your servant? What have I done to displease you that you put the burden of all these people on me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:15 - If this is how you are going to treat me, please go ahead and kill me—if I have found favor in your eyes—and do not let me face my own ruin.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:5 - If we have found favor in your eyes,” they said, “let this land be given to your servants as our possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:1 - If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:17 - Gideon replied, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really you talking to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:2 - And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.” Naomi said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:10 - At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She asked him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me—a foreigner?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:13 - “May I continue to find favor in your eyes, my lord,” she said. “You have put me at ease by speaking kindly to your servant—though I do not have the standing of one of your servants.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:18 - She said, “May your servant find favor in your eyes.” Then she went her way and ate something, and her face was no longer downcast.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:22 - Then Saul sent word to Jesse, saying, “Allow David to remain in my service, for I am pleased with him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:3 - But David took an oath and said, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said to himself, ‘Jonathan must not know this or he will be grieved.’ Yet as surely as the LORD lives and as you live, there is only a step between me and death.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:29 - He said, ‘Let me go, because our family is observing a sacrifice in the town and my brother has ordered me to be there. If I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away to see my brothers.’ That is why he has not come to the king’s table.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:8 - Ask your own servants and they will tell you. Therefore be favorable toward my men, since we come at a festive time. Please give your servants and your son David whatever you can find for them.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:5 - Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let a place be assigned to me in one of the country towns, that I may live there. Why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:22 - Joab fell with his face to the ground to pay him honor, and he blessed the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that he has found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, because the king has granted his servant’s request.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:25 - Then the king said to Zadok, “Take the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the LORD’s eyes, he will bring me back and let me see it and his dwelling place again.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:4 - Then the king said to Ziba, “All that belonged to Mephibosheth is now yours.” “I humbly bow,” Ziba said. “May I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:19 - Pharaoh was so pleased with Hadad that he gave him a sister of his own wife, Queen Tahpenes, in marriage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:15 - When the turn came for Esther (the young woman Mordecai had adopted, the daughter of his uncle Abihail) to go to the king, she asked for nothing other than what Hegai, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the harem, suggested. And Esther won the favor of everyone who saw her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:17 - Now the king was attracted to Esther more than to any of the other women, and she won his favor and approval more than any of the other virgins. So he set a royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:2 - When he saw Queen Esther standing in the court, he was pleased with her and held out to her the gold scepter that was in his hand. So Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:8 - If the king regards me with favor and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for them. Then I will answer the king’s question.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:3 - Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor with you, Your Majesty, and if it pleases you, grant me my life—this is my petition. And spare my people—this is my request.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:5 - “If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if he regards me with favor and thinks it the right thing to do, and if he is pleased with me, let an order be written overruling the dispatches that Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, devised and wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:2 - You are the most excellent of men and your lips have been anointed with grace, since God has blessed you forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 84:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 84:11 - For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:9 - They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:4 - Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.

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