חֲנִינָה
compassion
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2594 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Jeremiah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun חנינה centers on the idea of “compassion.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. Jeremiah dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. A true hapax — its single appearance is Jeremiah 16:13. Sharing its root, it stands alongside חנן, חן and חנה. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2594 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Jeremiah 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: You favour 1×
- American Standard Version: You no favor 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Favor 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Favor 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2594 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2594 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2594 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2594 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- favour, compassion
Word origin
n.f. favour לֹא־אֶתֵּן לָכֶם חֲנִינָה I will shew you no favour Je 16:13 (v. on form BaNB 136).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חנן (chânan) (H2603) — to be gracious.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חֲנִינָא
- Ḥănina, name of several Tannaim and Amoraim. Ḥ. b. Antigonos: Tosef. Arakh. I, 15 (ed. Zuck. חנניא); Arakh. II, 4 (10ᵃ) Talm. ed. (Mish. חנניא). Tem. VI, 5 חנינא.; Tosef. ib. IV, 10 חנניה. Nidd. 52ᵃ. Bekh. VI, 3; a. fr. (v. Darkhe Mish. p. 128).—Ḥ. b. Gamliel: Macc. III, 15 (23ᵃ) Ms. M. (ed. חנניא). B. Bath. X, 1. (Tosef. Yoma I, 6 חנניא; Sifra Emor ch. I, Par. 2, a. e. חנניה). Snh. 111ᵃ ח׳ בן גמלא (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note).—Nidd. 8ᵃ (v. Darkhe Mish. p. 130).—Ḥ. b. Ḥăkhinai: Kil. IV, 8 (Ms. M. a. Y. חנניה, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note). Men. 62ᵃ; a. e. (mostly חנניא, הנניה).—Ḥ., S’gan hak-Kohanim (v. סָגָן). Eduy. II, 1; a. fr. (v. Darkhe Mish. p. 59, sq.).—Rabbi Ḥ.: Sabb. 59ᵇ; a. fr. (v. Frank. M’bo, p. 86ᵇ, sq.).—Other Amoraim by that name, v. Frank. l. c. 87ᵇ, sq.—Snh. 98ᵇ, v. next w.
חֲנִינָה II
- 1. mercy. Gen. R. s. 78; s. 92 שמענו ח׳ בי"א וכ׳ we find grace applied to the eleven tribes (before Benjamin was born; Gen. XXXIII, 5). e.g. Genesis 33:5
- 2. caressing (of the new-born child). M. Kat. 25ᵇ (play on Ḥannin) בעת חֲנִינָתוֹ אבד חַנִּינוֹ (v. חֲנִיכָה) at the moment of his receiving caresses died he who was to caress him.
- 3. (name of fiction, v. preced.) Ḥăninah (Love). Snh. 98ᵇ דבי ר׳ חנינה אמרי ח׳ שמו the disciples of R. Ḥ. said, the Messiah’s name is Ḥ.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2594, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- חן chên H2580 grace
- חנה chânâh H2583 to encamp
- חנון channûwn H2587 gracious
- חנות channôwth H2589 to be gracious
- חנן chănan H2604 to show favour
- תחנה tᵉchinnâh H8467 supplication
- תחנון tachănûwn H8469 supplication
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- חנה Channâh H2584 Hannah
- חנון Chânûwn H2586 Hanun
- חניאל Channîyʼêl H2592 Hanniel
- חנן Chânân H2605 Hanan
- חננאל Chănanʼêl H2606 Hananeel
- חנני Chănânîy H2607 Hanani
- חנניה Chănanyâh H2608 Hananiah
- חנתן Channâthôn H2615 Hannathon
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 17 — not the complete family. 8 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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