Favor
חֵןStrong’s H2580chen
Appears in 67 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chen is the Hebrew word usually translated “favor”, “grace” and “favor of”. It appears in 67 verses of the Old Testament.
“Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.”
Meaning
- Favour, grace, charmfavour, grace, elegance · favour, acceptance
How it's translated
- favor 55
- grace 8
- favor of 3
- favor his 1
- and grace 1
- grace of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 14
- Proverbs 13
- Exodus 8
- 1 Samuel 6
- Esther 6
- Numbers 3
16 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 12:10In contextAnd I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
- Genesis 6:8But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
- Genesis 18:3And said, My LORD, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
- Genesis 19:19Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
- Genesis 30:27And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.
- Genesis 32:5And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.
All 67 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
חֵן chen · favor
1) favour, grace, charm 1a) favour, grace, elegance 1b) favour, acceptance
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “favor” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FA'VOR, noun
[Latin favor faveo.]
- Kind regard; kindness; countenance; propitious aspect; friendly disposition.“Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain” Proverbs 31:30
- Support; defense; vindication; or disposition to aid, befriend, support, promote or justify.
- A kind act or office; kindness done or granted; benevolence shown by word or deed; any act of grace or good will, as distinguished from acts of justice or renumeration.
- Lenity; mildness or mitigation of punishment.
All definitions and other forms of “favor”
- Leave; good will; a yielding or concession to another; pardon.
- The object of kind regard; the person or thing favored.
- A gift or present; something bestowed as an evidence of good will; a token of love; a knot of ribbons; something worn as a token of affection.
- A feature; countenance. [Not used.]
- Advantage; convenience afforded for success.
- Partiality; bias.
FA'VOR, verb transitive
- To regard with kindness; to support; to aid or have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to countenance; to befriend; to encourage.“Thou shalt arise, and have mercy on Zion; for the time to favor her, yea, the set time is come” Psalms 102:13
- To afford advantages for success; to facilitate.
- To resemble in features.
- To ease; to spare.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.