King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H2586
Transliteration: Chanun
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-noon')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: "favored", two contemporaries of Nehemiah, also an Ammonite king
Meaning: Hanun -- "favored", two contemporaries of Nehemiah, also an Ammonite king
Word Summary
Chanun: "favored", two contemporaries of Nehemiah, also an Ammonite king
Original Word: חָנוּןTransliteration: Chanun
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-noon')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: "favored", two contemporaries of Nehemiah, also an Ammonite king
Meaning: Hanun -- "favored", two contemporaries of Nehemiah, also an Ammonite king
Strong's Concordance
Hanun From chanan; favored; Chanun, the name of an Ammonite and of two Israelites -- Hanun.
see HEBREW chanan
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2586. Chanun
חָנוּן (favoured; compare Assyrian –anunu, king of Gaza COT on 2 Kings 15:29); —
1 an Ammonite king 2 Samuel 10:1-2, 3, 4; 1 Chronicles 19:2 (twice in verse); 19:3-4, 6.
2 Jewish chiefs, contemporaries of Nehemiah:
a. Nehemiah 3:18.
b. Nehemiah 3:30.