chan.nun describes a favorable and compassionate disposition, especially in statements about God’s response to those who return or seek him.

The attested use is a single adjectival description of a favorable, compassionate disposition, most often stated of God alongside compassion, patience, kindness, mercy, or forgiveness. In the supplied verses it occurs in declarations of God’s character, in calls to return to him, and once in a description of the upright person.

1. Favorable, compassionate disposition · dominant

   All supplied tokens are masculine singular absolute adjectives. In Exodus 34:6 the form occurs in the LORD’s self-declaration alongside compassion, patience, kindness, and truth; in Joel 2:13, that description supports the call to return because God relents concerning harm. Psalm 112:4 applies the same descriptive pattern to the upright, whom the APB renders as compassionate and righteous as well.

   Exodus 34:6Joel 2:13Nehemiah 9:17Psalm 103:8Psalm 112:4Psalm 145:8

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term with “gracious” in descriptions of God and also in Psalm 112:4. Exodus 22:26 does not make this adjective’s particular English contribution clear.