חַנּוֹת
chan.not (H2603A)
to entreat
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# חַנּוֹת (chanov): The Hebrew Verb of Entreaty The Hebrew verb חַנּוֹת carries the fundamental meaning "to entreat"—that is, to make an earnest, often urgent request or appeal to another person. With 77 occurrences across the biblical text, this is a moderately frequent word, indicating that the concept it expresses held meaningful relevance in biblical communication and relationship-building. The verb's frequency and distribution suggest it was an important concept for describing a particular mode of human interaction: the act of making a sincere petition, typically from a position of need or dependent status toward someone in a position to grant or deny a request. The word captures not merely casual asking but rather the more intense, emotionally engaged form of appeal that characterizes entreaty. This distinction—between simple requests and earnest pleading—reflects a nuance in biblical language that acknowledges different social dynamics and degrees of urgency in human communication. Given its substantial presence throughout the biblical corpus, חַנּוֹת appears to have been a standard term for describing interpersonal appeals across various contexts and relationships. The word's consistency in meaning across numerous occurrences suggests it filled a specific lexical niche in Hebrew, allowing speakers and writers to distinguish earnest entreaties from other forms of communication or request.
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He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?” He said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”
Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He urged him, and he took it.
They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”
He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?” He said, “God be gracious to you, my son.”
He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”
Yahweh make his face to shine on you, and be gracious to you.
I begged Yahweh at that time, saying,
and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.
a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young.
It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we didn’t take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them; otherwise you would now be guilty.’ ”
He said, “While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?’
“When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house;
yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’
Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day requires;
Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, “Man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty of your servants, be precious in your sight.
But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect for them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, and he didn’t cast them from his presence as yet.
“If your people Israel are struck down before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house;
yet if they come to their senses in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly;’
He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Susa to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.
Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and begged him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his plan that he had planned against the Jews.
If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.
“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.
then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’
Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death,
But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.
Hear, Yahweh, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me.
I cried to you, Yahweh. I made supplication to the Lord:
Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.
All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.
I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”
But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.
Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.
You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors.
Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?”
Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.
Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your servant.
You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.
For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.
Let there be no one to extend kindness to him, neither let there be anyone to have pity on his fatherless children.
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