Bible word study
Chesed (Strong’s H2617): Meaning in the Bible
Chesed (חֶסֶד) is the Hebrew word numbered H2617 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty. In the King James Bible it is translated favour, good deed(-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-) kindness.
- Original wordחֶסֶד
- Transliterationcheçed
- Pronunciationkheh'-sed
- Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
- Strong’s numberH2617
- LanguageHebrew
The full Strong’s definition
Derivation. from H2616;
How the King James Bible translates it
And Christ
The Hebrew Scriptures sing of God's steadfast love for a people who kept breaking faith. Christians read the cross as that covenant love carried to its furthest point, love that keeps its promise even when it costs everything.
The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.
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