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# תַּחֲנוּן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8469

**supplication for favour** — used 18 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

supplication for favour [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8469/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּחֲנוּן: pl.abstr. supplication for favour [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8469/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] only pl.abstr. supplication for favour;—abs. תַּחֲנוּנִים Pr 18:23 + 4 times; cstr. תַּחֲנוּנֵי Je 3:21; 2 Ch 6:21; sf. 1 s. תַּחֲנוּנַי ψ 28:2 etc., + 9 times sf.; also תַּחֲנוּנוֹתָ֑י ψ 86:6;— made to men: דִּבֶּר ת׳ (a poor man to the rich) Pr 18:23; ת׳ אֵל supplication unto (crocodile to man) Jb 40:27; elsewhere to God: ‖ תפלה ψ 143:1 Dn 9:3, 17; ת׳ אשׁר התפלל 2 Ch 6:21 (= תחנה 1 K 8:30); קוֹל ת׳ voice of supplication ψ 28:2, 6; 31:23; 86:6; 130:2; 140:7, also 116:2 (for קוֹלִי is old case-ending, and cstr. as 𝔊 𝔙 Che Bae al.); ‖ בְּכִי Je 31:9; בְּכִי ת׳ Je 3:21; רוח חן ות׳ Zc 12:10; אֲנַחְנוּ מַפִּילִים ת׳ לְפָנֶיךָ Dn 9:18 we are presenting our supplications before thee; בִּתְחִלַּת ת׳ Dn 9:23 at the beginning of thy supplication.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: supplications (9); my supplications (6); of the supplications (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 28:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.28.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.28.6/#tree)

בָּר֥וּךְ יְהוָ֑ה כִּי־שָׁ֝מַע ק֣וֹל תַּחֲנוּנָֽי׃

*Word for word:* \[be\].blessed Yahweh (dm) he.has.heard the.sound my.supplications my

*JPS 1917:* Blessed be the LORD, because He hath heard the voice of my supplications.

[Proverbs 18:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.23/#tree)

תַּחֲנוּנִ֥ים יְדַבֶּר־רָ֑שׁ וְ֝עָשִׁ֗יר יַעֲנֶ֥ה עַזּֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* supplications he.speaks \[one.who.is\].poor and a.rich.\[person\] he.answers strong.\[words\]

*JPS 1917:* The poor useth entreaties; but the rich answereth impudently.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8469/): 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).