תַּחֲנוּן

2 Chronicles 6:21 תַּחֲנוּנֵ֤י [the] supplications of

Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive.

Job 41:3 תַּחֲנוּנִ֑ים supplications

Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?

Psalm 28:2 תַּ֭חֲנוּנַי supplications my

Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

Here: "My pleas for favour." The word comes from the root ḥ-n-n, "to show grace or favour." The plural suggests pleas made again and again. The speaker is begging a superior for kindness he cannot demand.

Psalm 28:6 תַּחֲנוּנָֽי׃ supplications my

Blessed be the LORD, for He has heard my cry for mercy.

Psalm 31:22 תַּחֲנוּנַ֗י supplications my

In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.

Here: From chanan, 'to be gracious'. These are appeals for undeserved kindness, the plea of someone with no claim but the other's goodwill. The plural suggests repeated, insistent begging.

Psalm 86:6 תַּחֲנוּנוֹתָֽי׃ supplications my

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and attend to my plea for mercy.

Here: "My pleas for favor." The word comes from chanan, "to be gracious, show favor," so each plea is a request for grace. The plural suggests many pleas, or pleading again and again. It picks up v. 3 ("be gracious to me") and looks ahead to v. 15, where God is called chanun, "gracious."

Psalm 116:1 תַּחֲנוּנָֽי׃ supplications my

I love the LORD, for He has heard my voice—my appeal for mercy.

Here: 'My pleas', from the root ḥnn, 'to show favour, be gracious'. These are begging appeals to someone with the power to help, asking for undeserved kindness. The plural suggests repeated, urgent pleading. It explains what 'my voice' was saying.

Psalm 130:2 תַּחֲנוּנָֽי׃ supplications my

O Lord, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.

Here: 'My pleas for grace.' The word comes from the root ḥ-n-n, 'to show favour, be gracious'. These are appeals to God's undeserved kindness, not claims on what the speaker is owed. The plural suggests pleas repeated over and over.

Psalm 140:6 תַּחֲנוּנָֽי׃ supplications my

I say to the LORD, “You are my God.” Hear, O LORD, my cry for help.

Here: "My pleas for grace". The noun comes from ḥānan, "to show favor, be gracious". These are appeals to God's goodwill, not demands. The plural suggests repeated, insistent pleading.

Psalm 143:1 תַּחֲנוּנַ֑י supplications my

A Psalm of David. O LORD, hear my prayer. In Your faithfulness, give ear to my plea; in Your righteousness, answer me.

Here: From the root ḥ-n-n, 'to show favor, be gracious'. These are pleas for undeserved favor, not demands for what is owed. The plural suggests repeated or intense pleading. The major pause in the verse falls on this word.

Proverbs 18:23 תַּחֲנוּנִ֥ים supplications

The poor man pleads for mercy, but the rich man answers harshly.

Jeremiah 3:21 תַחֲנוּנֵ֖י [the] supplications of

A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.

Here: Pleas for favor or mercy, from the root ḥanan, 'to show grace or favor'. Together with 'weeping' it describes tearful begging. Jeremiah pairs the same two words again in 31:9.

Jeremiah 31:9 וּֽבְתַחֲנוּנִים֮ and with supplications

They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”

Here: "And with pleas for grace". The word comes from the root ḥnn, "to be gracious", so these are cries asking for mercy one has no claim to. The plural suggests repeated, heartfelt pleading.

Daniel 9:3 וְתַחֲנוּנִ֑ים and supplications

So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

Here: From the root 'show favour, be gracious'. These are pleas for grace that the speaker cannot claim as a right. The plural suggests repeated, insistent pleading. Verse 18 makes the point explicit: 'not because of our righteousness... but because of your great mercy.'

Daniel 9:17 תַּ֣חֲנוּנָ֔יו supplications his

So now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of Your servant. For Your sake, O Lord, cause Your face to shine upon Your desolate sanctuary.

Here: A plural noun from the root ḥnn, 'to be gracious, show favour'. These are pleas for favour that is undeserved, which prepares for v. 18: 'not because of our righteous acts, but because of your great compassion'.

Daniel 9:18 תַּחֲנוּנֵ֙ינוּ֙ supplications our

Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.

Here: 'Our pleas for favor.' The word comes from the root ḥ-n-n, 'show grace or favor,' so by its very form it asks for unearned kindness.

Daniel 9:23 תַּחֲנוּנֶ֜יךָ supplications your

At the beginning of your petitions, an answer went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are highly precious. So consider the message and understand the vision:

Here: "Your pleas for grace." The word comes from the root ḥ-n-n, "to show favor." It points back to the prayer of 9:4–19, which pleaded on the basis of God's mercy and disowned Israel's own merit (9:18).

Zechariah 12:10 וְתַ֣חֲנוּנִ֔ים and supplications

Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

Here: 'And pleas for favor.' These are urgent appeals for mercy, and the plural adds intensity. It shares the root ḥ-n-n with ḥēn, so the phrase carries a wordplay: God's favor creates people who plead for favor.