Favor, grace. First appearance: 'Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah' — and chen reverses the letters of Noach. ⚠ The word does its busiest work far later: it crosses between Moses and God FIVE separate times in six verses at the tent of meeting, a volley that turns God's own compliment into the currency of an argument (Exodus 33:12–17, already on these pages). → first discussed at Gen 6:8