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Favor

חֲנִינָהStrong’s H2594

chaninah (cha-ni-nah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Chaninah is the Hebrew word usually translated “favor”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.”
Jeremiah 16:13 KJV
Meaning
  1. Favour, compassion
How it's translated
  • favor 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Jeremiah 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    חֲנִינָה chaninah · favor

    favour, compassion

    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.]

    1. Kind regard; kindness; countenance; propitious aspect; friendly disposition.“Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain” Proverbs 31:30
    2. Support; defense; vindication; or disposition to aid, befriend, support, promote or justify.
    3. 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.
    4. Lenity; mildness or mitigation of punishment.
    All definitions and other forms of “favor”
    1. Leave; good will; a yielding or concession to another; pardon.
    2. The object of kind regard; the person or thing favored.
    3. 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.
    4. A feature; countenance. [Not used.]
    5. Advantage; convenience afforded for success.
    6. Partiality; bias.

    FA'VOR, verb transitive

    1. 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
    2. To afford advantages for success; to facilitate.
    3. To resemble in features.
    4. 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.