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Words
חֶסֶד H2617
- Home gloss
- loyalty
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- mercy / kindness, steadfast love
- Note
- What one party owes another inside a bond, and gives beyond it; always "done" (עָשָׂה): host and guest (19:19), wife and husband (20:13), ally and ally (21:23), servant and master (24:12–27), Adonai and his people (Exod 34:6–7). See the note at 19:19 and the report
- Rulings
- 2, 3
Occurrences (3)
- 19:19 Look, please, your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have made great your loyalty which you have done with me, to keep my soul alive; and I, I am not able to slip away to the mountain, lest the bad cling to me and I die.
- 20:13 And it was, when elohim made me stray from the house of my father, and I said to her, 'This is your loyalty which you shall do with me: to every place where we come, say of me, "He is my brother."'"
- 21:23 And now, swear to me hither by elohim: if you will deal falsely with me, and with my progeny, and with my posterity—! According to the loyalty that I have done with you, you shall do with me, and with the land in which you have sojourned."