ta.cha.nun denotes earnest pleas, voiced in prayer, distress, and appeals for a hearing.

The term consistently denotes earnest pleas directed toward a hearer, especially in prayer: speakers ask God to hear, attend, forgive, or answer, while other verses place such pleas amid weeping, poverty, mourning, and need.

1. Earnest pleas in prayer and distress · dominant

   The plural noun occurs in appeals for God to hear: in Psalm 28:2 the APB renders the clause "Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to you," and in Daniel 9:18 it places the speaker's pleas before God rather than his own righteousness. It also occurs with communal weeping in Jeremiah 3:21, the poor person's appeal in Proverbs 18:23, and mourning after the outpouring of a spirit of favor in Zechariah 12:10.

   Psalm 28:2Daniel 9:18Jeremiah 3:21Proverbs 18:23Zechariah 12:102 Chronicles 6:21

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term as "supplications," while Psalm 116:1 uses "pleas." Across the cited verses, these renderings occur in clauses asking God to hear or attend.