Moreover, Thou hast said, 'I have known you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.'ġ3 'Now therefore, I pray Thee, if I have found favor in Thy sight, let me know Thy ways, that I may know Thee, so that I may find favor in Thy sight. We can see the preponderance of the word 'favor' used here.ġ2 ¶ Then Moses said to the LORD, 'See, Thou dost say to me, 'Bring up this people!' But Thou Thyself hast not let me know whom Thou wilt send with me.

More significant than this is the powerful teaching on grace found in God Himself which Moses implored.

In order to keep this study more focused, we will study the use of grace or favor in the following significant passage from Exodus 33 which utilizes several of the Hebrew words for grace together. The study of the word grace is more complicated in the OT than in the NT in some ways. Johanan has given us the name Joh: Jean (French), Givovanni (Italian), Juan (Spanish), Johann, and Hans (German), Jan (Dutch, and Ivan (Russian). Did you know that Hannah is a transliteration of the word gracious, grace and favor? Other names derived from this are Anna, Ann, Nan, Nancy, Anita (Spanish) and Annette (Frengh). Suffice for us to know, when a person is showing grace, he is also showing mercy. In many cases mercy or 'lovingkindness' (NASB used) is used instead. This makes sense, for if grace is undeserved favor, then indeed there is that sense of pity, compassion and mercy evident within the word. The meaning of mercy often overlaps into the sphere of grace. Many have excluded the word ' hesed' from this study of grace largely because the Septuagint, a pre-Christ translation of Hebrew scriptures into Greek, used the word mercy ( eleos) to translate hesed. We find a close blend of Hebrew words meaning mercy, favor, grace and gracious. 'Grace,' 'Graciousness' and 'graceful' are used quite frequently through the Old Testament starting in the Pentateuch and concentrated in the Psalms. We will exposit the passage Exodus 33:12-19 to gain a deeper meaning of the OT usage of grace (Hebrew: hen, hanan, hesed, rahum). Grace is so commonly used in the scripture that this study can easily overwhelm us.

What is the meaning of god's grace