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title: חָנוּן — Hanun · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָנוּן (2586), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 11 times: Hanun. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חָנוּן

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«חָנוּן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Hanun** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 11 times · **Key:** 2586 · **BDB:** חָנוּן

### Glosses

Hanun (11)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Hanun [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2586/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2586/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (favoured; cf. Assyrian Ḫanunu, king of Gaza COT on 2 K 15:29);— an Ammonite king 2 S 10:1, 2, 3, 4; 1 Ch 19:2(×2), 3, 4, 6. Jewish chiefs, contemporaries of Nehemiah: Ne 3:13. Ne 3:30.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חָנוּן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2586/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Samuel 10:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.10.1/)

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וַֽיְהִי֙ אַֽחֲרֵי־כֵ֔ן וַיָּ֕מָת מֶ֖לֶךְ בְּנֵ֣י עַמּ֑וֹן וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְ חָנ֥וּן בְּנ֖וֹ תַּחְתָּֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and it.was after thus and he.died the.king of.the.people of.Ammon and he.reigned Hanun son his in place.of.him

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.

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[1 Chronicles 19:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.19.4/)

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וַיִּקַּ֨ח חָנ֜וּן אֶת־עַבְדֵ֤י דָוִיד֙ וַֽיְגַלְּחֵ֔ם וַיִּכְרֹ֧ת אֶת־מַדְוֵיהֶ֛ם בַּחֵ֖צִי עַד־הַמִּפְשָׂעָ֑ה וַֽיְשַׁלְּחֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.took Hanun (et) the.servants of.David and he shaved.them and he.cut.off (et) robes their in the middle to the buttock\[s\] and he sent.them.away

*JPS 1917:* So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their hips, and sent them away.

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