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# חָנוּן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2586

**Hanun** — used 11 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Hanun [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2586/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָנוּן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2586/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (favoured; cf. Assyrian Ḫanunu, king of Gaza COT on 2 K 15:29);— an Ammonite king 2 S 10:1, 2, 3, 4; 1 Ch 19:2(×2), 3, 4, 6. Jewish chiefs, contemporaries of Nehemiah: Ne 3:13. Ne 3:30.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hanun (11).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 10:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.10.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.10.1/#tree)

וַֽיְהִי֙ אַֽחֲרֵי־כֵ֔ן וַיָּ֕מָת מֶ֖לֶךְ בְּנֵ֣י עַמּ֑וֹן וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְ חָנ֥וּן בְּנ֖וֹ תַּחְתָּֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and it.was after thus and he.died the.king of.the.people of.Ammon and he.reigned Hanun son his in place.of.him

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.

[1 Chronicles 19:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.19.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.19.4/#tree)

וַיִּקַּ֨ח חָנ֜וּן אֶת־עַבְדֵ֤י דָוִיד֙ וַֽיְגַלְּחֵ֔ם וַיִּכְרֹ֧ת אֶת־מַדְוֵיהֶ֛ם בַּחֵ֖צִי עַד־הַמִּפְשָׂעָ֑ה וַֽיְשַׁלְּחֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.took Hanun (et) the.servants of.David and he shaved.them and he.cut.off (et) robes their in the middle to the buttock\[s\] and he sent.them.away

*JPS 1917:* So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their hips, and sent them away.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2586.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2586/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).