תַּחֲנוּן
ta.cha.nun
supplication
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word תַּחֲנוּן, with a Strong's number of H8469, conveys the concept of supplication. This word appears 18 times in the Bible, indicating its importance in the context of worship and ritual practices. A supplication is a prayer or plea, often characterized by a sense of urgency or need. The frequency of its occurrence suggests that supplication is a significant aspect of prayer and worship in the Hebrew Bible. Its inclusion in the semantic domain of Worship & Ritual underscores its role in connecting people with a higher power and in times of personal or communal crisis. In everyday language, supplication can be understood as a heartfelt, often desperate, appeal for help or intervention. Its appearance in 18 different passages in the Bible signifies the need for this type of communication with the divine, whether in response to personal struggles, communal crises, or moments of great joy.
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Occurrences in Scripture
18 total occurrences across the text
Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?
Psalms 28:2Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
Psalms 28:6Blessed be Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my petitions.
Psalms 31:22As 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 86:6Hear, Yahweh, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions.
Psalms 116:1I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.
Psalms 130:2Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.
Psalms 140:6I said to Yahweh, “You are my God.” Listen to the cry of my petitions, Yahweh.
Psalms 143:1Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
Proverbs 18:23The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.
Jeremiah 3:21A 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 31:9They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.
Daniel 9:3I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
Daniel 9:17“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 9:18My 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 9:23At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.
Zechariah 12:10I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
2 Chronicles 6:21Listen to the petitions of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear from your dwelling place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive.