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title: חַנּוּן — gracious · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חַנּוּן (2587), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 13 times: gracious. BDB 1906: adj. gracious. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חַנּוּן

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«חַנּוּן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **gracious** — 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:** 13 times · **Key:** 2587 · **BDB:** חַנּוּן

### Glosses

gracious (6); \[is\].gracious (5); \[am\].gracious (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

gracious [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2587/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. gracious [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2587/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. gracious, only used as an attribute of God, as hearing the cry of the vexed debtor Ex 22:26 (covt. code), ‖ מְרַחֵם ψ 116:5; elsewhere in the earlier phrase רַחוּם וְחַנּוּן Ex 34:6 (JE) = ψ 86:15; 103:8, or the later חַנּוּן וְרַחוּם 2 Ch 30:9; Ne 9:17, 31 ψ 111:4; 112:4; 145:8 Jo 2:13; Jon 4:2.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חַנּוּן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2587/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 116:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.116.5/)

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חַנּ֣וּן יְהֹוָ֣ה וְצַדִּ֑יק וֵ֖אלֹהֵ֣ינוּ מְרַחֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].gracious Yahweh and righteous and God our \[is\].having.compassion

*JPS 1917:* Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is compassionate.

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[Psalms 103:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.103.8/)

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רַח֣וּם וְחַנּ֣וּן יְהוָ֑ה אֶ֖רֶךְ אַפַּ֣יִם וְרַב־חָֽסֶד׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].compassionate and gracious Yahweh long of.anger(s) and great of.covenant.loyalty

*JPS 1917:* The LORD is full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

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