תַּחֲנוּן
supplication
‘supplication’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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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
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 13 times (72%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 5 times (28%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 18 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H8469 appears — 18 distinct verses across 7 books. 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.
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Job 1 verse
Psalms 8 verses
- Psalms 28:2 תַּ֭חֲנוּנַ/י n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, When I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
- Psalms 28:6 תַּחֲנוּנָֽ/י n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs Blessed be Yahweh, Because he has heard the voice of my petitions.
- Psalms 31:22 תַּחֲנוּנַ֗/י n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
- Psalms 86:6 תַּחֲנוּנוֹתָֽ/י n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs Hear, Yahweh, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions.
- Psalms 116:1 תַּחֲנוּנָֽ/י n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, And my cries for mercy.
- Psalms 130:2 תַּחֲנוּנָֽ/י n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.
- Psalms 140:6 תַּחֲנוּנָֽ/י n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs I said to Yahweh, "You are my God." Listen to the cry of my petitions, Yahweh.
- Psalms 143:1 תַּחֲנוּנַ֑/י n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
Proverbs 1 verse
Jeremiah 2 verses
- Jeremiah 3:21 תַחֲנוּנֵ֖י n c mp cs A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping [and] the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.
- Jeremiah 31:9 וּֽ/בְ/תַחֲנוּנִים֮ conj + prep + n c mp They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Daniel 4 verses
- Daniel 9:3 וְ/תַחֲנוּנִ֑ים conj + n c mp I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
- Daniel 9:17 תַּ֣חֲנוּנָ֔י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.
- Daniel 9:18 תַּחֲנוּנֵ֨י/נוּ֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies' sake.
- Daniel 9:23 תַּחֲנוּנֶ֜י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went forth, and I am come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved: therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.
Zechariah 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.
תחנון (tachănûwn) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “supplication.” The King James Version usually renders it “supplications,” while modern versions prefer “mercy” (Berean Standard Bible) and “pleas” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) — see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 18 verses in 7 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Psalms dominates its distribution — 8 of 18 verses. Ranging over 3 senses, it is not a single-sense word. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8469 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 →
- 18
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 18 distinct verses.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,612
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,612 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 18 occurrences in the concordance →
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 18 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 15 verses · 83%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 17%
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: Supplications 16×
- American Standard Version: Supplications 15×
- Berean Standard Bible: Mercy 5×, Petitions 3×, Plea 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pleas 7×, Supplications 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8469 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8469 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8469 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8469 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 3 senses 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.
- supplication, supplication for favour
- to man
- to God
Word origin
[ תַּחֲנוּן ] n.[m.] only pl.abstr. supplication for favour
— 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.
תַּחֲנוּן
- preced.) prayers, supplications for grace. Deut. R. s. 2, v. חִינּוּן. Ab. II, 13, v. קֶבַע. Ab. Zar. 5ᵃ (ref. to Lev. XXVI, 3) אין אם אלא לשון ת׳ im means prayer (Oh that). R. Hash. 17ᵃ; Pes. 118ᵇ (ref. to Ps. CXVI, 1) אימתי אני אהובה … קול תַּחֲנוּנָי when am I beloved before thee? When thou hearest the voice of my supplications. Y. Ber. IV, 7ᵈ bot. ויהיו דברינו ת׳ לפניך and let our words be (words of) supplications before thee, i.e. truly devotional; a. fr. e.g. Leviticus 26:3
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.
Forms in the corpus
The 15 distinct written forms H8469 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8469, 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
- חנינה chănîynâh H2594 compassion
- חנן chănan H2604 to show favour
- תחנה tᵉchinnâh H8467 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 16 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 18 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
