Genesis 6:8
But Noach found chen (grace, unmerited favor) in the eyes of Hashem. 1 [NOACH]
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 19:19Hinei now, thy eved hath found chen in Thy sight, and Thou hast magnified Thy chesed, which Thou hast showed unto me in sparing my nefesh; and I cannot flee to escape to the mountain, lest some ra'ah overtake me, and I die;
Psalms 84:11For a yom in Thy khatzrot is better 1 than a thousand. 1 I had rather be a doorkeeper in the Beis Elohai, 1 than to dwell in the ohalim resha (tents of wickedness). 1
Proverbs 3:4So shalt thou find chen and seichel tov 1 in the eyes of Elohim and adam. 1
Proverbs 12:2A tov (good man) obtaineth ratzon (favor) from Hashem, 1 but an ish mezimor (a man of crafty devices) will He condemn. 1
Luke 1:30And the malach said to her, Do not have pachad (fear), Miryam, for you have found chen before Hashem.
Romans 4:4Now to him who works, the loin (wages, batzalon [remuneration]) is not credited to oneʼs account as a favor or gift of chesed but as a choiv (debt).
Matthew Henry on Genesis 6:7-8
Mankind Threatened with Destruction. ( b. c. 2469.) 6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. Here is, I. God's resentment of man's wickedness. He did not see it as an unconcerned spectator, but as one injured and affronted by it; he saw it as a tender father sees… Read the whole commentary →