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# חַנּוּן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2587

**gracious** — used 13 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

gracious [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2587/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חַנּוּן: adj. gracious [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2587/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. gracious, only used as an attribute of God, as hearing the cry of the vexed debtor Ex 22:26 (covt. code), ‖ מְרַחֵם ψ 116:5; elsewhere in the earlier phrase רַחוּם וְחַנּוּן Ex 34:6 (JE) = ψ 86:15; 103:8, or the later חַנּוּן וְרַחוּם 2 Ch 30:9; Ne 9:17, 31 ψ 111:4; 112:4; 145:8 Jo 2:13; Jon 4:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: gracious (6); \[is\] gracious (5); \[am\] gracious (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 116:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.116.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.116.5/#tree)

חַנּ֣וּן יְהֹוָ֣ה וְצַדִּ֑יק וֵ֖אלֹהֵ֣ינוּ מְרַחֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].gracious Yahweh and righteous and God our \[is\].having.compassion

*JPS 1917:* Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is compassionate.

[Psalms 103:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.103.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.103.8/#tree)

רַח֣וּם וְחַנּ֣וּן יְהוָ֑ה אֶ֖רֶךְ אַפַּ֣יִם וְרַב־חָֽסֶד׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].compassionate and gracious Yahweh long of.anger(s) and great of.covenant.loyalty

*JPS 1917:* The LORD is full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2587.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2587/): 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).