The name means "Lord of Mercy" or "Lord Compassionate" and is one of the very specific epithets of Ba'al which the later Jews took over for YHVH. Its most famous occurrence is in that holiest of all prayers, "Adonai Adonai el rachum ve chanun", repeated throughout the Ten Days of Awe from New Year to Yom Kippur. The Muslims likewise borrowed it as a primary attribute of al-Lah, "The Merciful and Compassionate", the phrase which prefaces every surah of the Qur'an: bismillahi racḥmani racḥimi - بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ - "in the name of al-Lah, the most compassionate, the most merciful".
Genesis 36:38 speaks of a son of Achbor by that name who succeeded Sha'ul of Rechovot as King of Edom (cf 1 Chronicles 1:49).
1 Chronicles 27:28 has a Ba'al Chanan as the Gederite who "supervised" the wild olives and sycamore figs in the Shephelah for King David. Geder is mentioned as a royal city of the Beney Kena'an in Joshua 12:13.
1 Chronicles 27:28 has a Ba'al Chanan as the Gederite who "supervised" the wild olives and sycamore figs in the Shephelah for King David. Geder is mentioned as a royal city of the Beney Kena'an in Joshua 12:13.
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