The corpus record — Hebrew

חֵ֖ן

chen · n.m

favour, grace

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Distribution

Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 69 · 2.25/10k

Senses

1. חֵן

favour, grace

2. חֵן

graciousness, i.e. subjective (kindness, favor) or objective (beauty)

3. חן

‏חן ‎2416

4. חן

;86 ‎Qoh 62 26 11] Est 14, THN)

5. חן

‏חן ‎daughter, or wife, of a priest

Attestations

חֵ֖ן Genesis 6:8 (BHS)
חֵן֙ Genesis 18:3 (BHS)
חֵן֮ Genesis 19:19 (BHS)
חֵ֖ן Genesis 30:27 (BHS)
חֵ֖ן Genesis 32:6 (BHS)
חֵ֖ן Genesis 33:8 (BHS)

6 of 69 attestations shown.

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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.