Strong's H2617
חֵסֵד
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- Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament)
Definition
kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty
Derivation
from H2616 (חָסַד);
KJV Translation
In the King James Version, חֵסֵד is translated as: favour, good deed(-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-) kindness, merciful (kindness), mercy, pity, reproach, wicked thing..
About Strong's Concordance
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, compiled by James Strong in 1890, assigns a unique number to every Hebrew and Aramaic root word in the Old Testament. The Hebrew dictionary covers all 8,674 root words. This entry is in the public domain.