H2580–חֵן–chen

If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing and send her away from his house.

חֵ֣ן chen “favor”

So he said to him, If now I have grace in your eyes, then give me a sign that it is you who are talking to me.

חֵ֖ן chen “favor”

And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Now let me go into the field and take up the heads of grain after him in whose eyes I may have grace. And she said to her, Go, my daughter.

חֵ֖ן chen “favor”

Then she went down on her face to the earth, and said to him, Why have I grace in your eyes, that you give attention to me, seeing I am from a strange people?

חֵ֤ן chen “favor”

Then she said, May I have grace in your eyes, my lord, for you have given me comfort, and you have said kind words to your servant, though I am not like one of your servants.

חֵ֨ן chen “favor”

And she said, May your servant have grace in your eyes. So the woman went away, and took part in the feast, and her face was no longer sad.

חֵ֖ן chen “favor”

And Saul sent to Jesse saying, Let David be with me, for he is pleasing to me.

חֵ֖ן chen “favor”

But David took his oath again and said, Your father sees that I am dear to you; so he says to himself, Let Jonathan have no idea of this, for it will be a grief to him; but as the Lord is living, and as your soul is living, there is only a step between m

חֵן֙ chen “favor”

Saying, Our family is making an offering in the town, and my brothers have given me orders to be there: so now, if I have grace in your eyes, let me go away and see my brothers. This is why he has not come to the king's table.

חֵן֙ chen “favor”

If your young men are questioned they will say the same thing. So now, let my young men have grace in your eyes, for we are come at a good time; please give anything you may have by you to your servants and to your son David.

חֵן֙ chen “favor”

Then David said to Achish, If now I have grace in your eyes, let me have a place in one of the smaller towns of your land, to be my living-place; for it is not right for your servant to be living with you in the king's town.

חֵ֤ן chen “favor”

Then Joab, falling down on his face on the earth, gave the king honour and blessing; and Joab said, Today it is clear to your servant that I have grace in your eyes, my lord king, because the king has given effect to the request of his servant.

חֵ֤ן chen “favor”

And the king said to Zadok, Take the ark of God back into the town: if I have grace in the eyes of the Lord, he will let me come back and see it and his House again:

חֵן֙ chen “favor”

Then the king said to Ziba, Truly everything which was Mephibosheth's is yours. And Ziba said, I give honour to my lord, may I have grace in your eyes, my lord, O king!

חֵ֥ן chen “favor”

Now Hadad was very pleasing to Pharaoh, so that he gave him the sister of his wife, Tahpenes the queen, for his wife.

חֵ֛ן chen “favor”

Now when the time came for Esther, the daughter of Abihail, his father's brother, whom Mordecai had taken as his daughter, to go in to the king, she made request for nothing but what Hegai, the king's servant and keeper of the women, had given her. And E

חֵ֔ן Chen “favor”

And Esther was more pleasing to the king than all the women, and to his eyes she was fairer and more full of grace than all the other virgins: so he put his crown on her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.

חֵ֥ן chen “favor”

And when the king saw Esther the queen waiting in the inner room, looking kindly on her he put out the rod of gold in his hand to her. So Esther came near and put her fingers on the top of the rod.

חֵ֖ן chen “favor”

If I have the king's approval, and if it is the king's pleasure to give me my prayer and do my request, let the king and Haman come to the feast which I will make ready for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.

חֵ֜ן chen “favor”

Then Esther the queen, answering, said, If I have your approval, O king, and if it is the king's pleasure, let my life be given to me in answer to my prayer, and my people at my request:

חֵ֤ן chen “favor”

And she said, If it is the king's pleasure and if I have his approval and this thing seems right to the king and I am pleasing to him, then let letters be sent giving orders against those which Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, sent out for the d

חֵ֣ן chen “favor”

You are fairer than the children of men; grace is flowing through your lips; for this cause the blessing of God is with you for ever.

חֵ֭ן chen “grace”

The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

חֵ֣ן chen “favor”

For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.

חֵ֓ן chen “favor”

So you will have grace and a good name in the eyes of God and men.

חֵ֖ן chen “favor”