Words the Bible translates as favor
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 8 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- charisχάριςfavor freely shown by someone who is free to give it, and that favor made real in a gift, a standing, or a power at work in the one who receives it
+2 more meanings
- thanks: the grateful return owed for kindness received
- graceful charm: the winning, attractive quality of speech
- ḥenחֵןgracious favor freely shown by someone with power to someone without a claim on it, and the attractive quality that draws such favor out
- ratsonרָצוֹןfavorable pleasure: what pleases someone, and so the acceptance or favor they grant and the will they choose to carry out
- yapahיָפַעto break out into view in a blaze of light: to shine forth, to appear brilliantly
- no'amנֹעַםthe perceptible delightfulness of favor: the gracious, pleasant quality of someone or something that is a delight to experience
- charitoōχαριτόωto favornot studied yet
- prosōpolēpteōπροσωποληπτέωto play favorites: to treat a person better or worse because of their outward status instead of judging them fairly
- ḥaninahחֲנִינָהfavornot studied yet
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