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# חֶסֶד

Biblical Hebrew

**shame** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

shame [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b6_5e1_5b6_5d3/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֶ֫סֶד²: n.m. shame, reproach [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b6_5e1_5b6_5d3/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. shame, reproach, only abs.:—ח׳ הוּא Lv 20:17 (H) it is a shame (shameful thing); ח׳ לְאֻמִּים חַטָּאת Pr 14:34 sin is a reproach to peoples.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[is\] a shame (1); a shame (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 14:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.34/#tree)

צְדָקָ֥ה תְרֽוֹמֵֽם־גּ֑וֹי וְחֶ֖סֶד לְאֻמִּ֣ים חַטָּֽאת׃

*Word for word:* righteousness it.exalts a.nation and.\[is\] a.shame to.a.people sin

*JPS 1917:* Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people.

[Leviticus 20:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.20.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.20.17/#tree)

וְאִ֣ישׁ אֲשֶׁר־יִקַּ֣ח אֶת־אֲחֹת֡וֹ בַּת־אָבִ֣יו א֣וֹ בַת־אִ֠מּוֹ וְרָאָ֨ה אֶת־עֶרְוָתָ֜הּ וְהִֽיא־תִרְאֶ֤ה אֶת־עֶרְוָתוֹ֙ חֶ֣סֶד ה֔וּא וְנִ֨כְרְת֔וּ לְעֵינֵ֖י בְּנֵ֣י עַמָּ֑ם עֶרְוַ֧ת אֲחֹת֛וֹ גִּלָּ֖ה עֲוֺנ֥וֹ יִשָּֽׂא׃

*Word for word:* and a.man who he.will.take (et) sister his the.daughter his.father his or the.daughter his.mother his and he.will.see (et) nakedness her and she she.will.see (et) nakedness his \[is\].a.shame it and they.will.be.cut.off to the.eyes of.the.sons their.people their the.nakedness his.sister his he.has.uncovered iniquity his he.will.bear

*JPS 1917:* And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness: it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5b6_5e1_5b6_5d3.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b6_5e1_5b6_5d3/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).