Gracious
חַנּוּןStrong’s H2587channun (chan-nun)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Channun is the Hebrew word usually translated “gracious”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.”
Meaning
- Gracious
How it's translated
- gracious 10
- and gracious 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 6
- Exodus 2
- Nehemiah 2
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Joel 1
- Jonah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 34:6And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
- 2 Chronicles 30:9For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.
- Nehemiah 9:17And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.
- Nehemiah 9:31Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
- Psalms 86:15But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
- Psalms 103:8The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
Hebrew dictionary
חַנּוּן channun · gracious
gracious
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “gracious” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GRA'CIOUS, adjective
[Latin gratiosus.]
- Favorable; kind; friendly; as, the envoy met with a gracious reception.
- Favorable; kind; benevolent; merciful; disposed to forgive offenses and impart unmerited blessings.
- Favorable; expressing kindness and favor.“All bore him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded from his mouth” Luke 4:22
- Proceeding from divine grace; as a person in a gracious state.
All definitions
- Acceptable; favored.
- Renewed or implanted by grace; as gracious affections.
- Virtuous; good.
- Excellent; graceful; becoming.
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.