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Word Study · Strong's H2617 · Hebrew

חֵסֵד

hesed

also written chesed

kheh'-sed

Strong's 1890 spelling: chêçêd

kindness

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty

Rendered in the KJV as

favour, good deed(-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-) kindness, merciful (kindness), mercy, pity, reproach, wicked thing.

  • 247
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 28 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 109
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 247 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 109

  • חַסְדּֽוֹ׃37
  • חֶ֣סֶד12
  • חֶ֔סֶד12
  • חֶ֥סֶד11
  • חַסְדֶּ֑ךָ10
  • חַסְדּ֑וֹ9
  • חָ֑סֶד7
  • חֶ֖סֶד5
  • חֶ֙סֶד֙5
  • חַ֭סְדְּךָ5
  • חָֽסֶד׃4
  • חַסְדְּךָ֣4

and 97 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 52

  • covenant loyalty his54
  • covenant loyalty44
  • covenant loyalty your32
  • loyalty24
  • according to covenant loyalty your7
  • [the] covenant loyalties of5
  • [the] covenant loyalty of5
  • and covenant loyalty my5
  • and the covenant loyalty5
  • and loyalty4
  • covenant loyalty my4
  • in covenant loyalty your4

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 30

  • noun · masculine singular73
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular58
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular35
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular11
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular7
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular6
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular5
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular5
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)5
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)5
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular4
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular4
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmsa · 73
  • HNcmsc/Sp3ms · 58
  • HNcmsc/Sp2ms · 35
  • HR/Ncmsc/Sp2ms · 11
  • HC/Ncmsa · 7
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 6
  • HC/Ncmsc/Sp1bs · 5
  • HC/Td/Ncmsa · 5
  • HNcmpc · 5
  • HNcmsc · 5
  • HNcmpc/Sp2ms · 4
  • HNcmsc/Sp1bs · 4

All 247, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Psalms carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis11 occurrences
Exodus4 occurrences
Leviticus1 occurrence
Numbers2 occurrences
Deuteronomy3 occurrences
Joshua3 occurrences
Judges2 occurrences
Ruth3 occurrences
1 Samuel4 occurrences
2 Samuel12 occurrences
1 Kings5 occurrences
1 Chronicles5 occurrences
2 Chronicles10 occurrences
Ezra3 occurrences
Nehemiah5 occurrences
Esther2 occurrences
Job3 occurrences
Psalms127 occurrences
Proverbs11 occurrences
Isaiah8 occurrences
Jeremiah6 occurrences
Lamentations2 occurrences
Daniel2 occurrences
Hosea6 occurrences
Joel1 occurrence
Jonah2 occurrences
Micah3 occurrences
Zechariah1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).