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# חָסַד

Biblical Hebrew

**be good** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

be good [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5e1_5b7_5d3/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָסַד: vb. be good, kind [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5e1_5b7_5d3/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. 1. be good, kind (NH חָסַד in deriv. חָסִיד pious; Aramaic חֲסַד be kind, mild (then beg), chiefly in deriv. חִסְדָּא etc.; cf. perhaps Arabic حَشَدَ usually pl. they assembled, sq. لَهُ they combined for him, and took pains to shew him courtesy Lane 574c, v. also RSProph. 409 (and Schu AE v. in Thes); \>Thes al. who find primary meaning in eager zeal or desire (‖ קנא), whence develop kindness (as above), and envy, Arabic حَسَدَ, حَسَدٌ envy (vb. & n.), Aramaic חֲסַד be put to shame, ܚܰܣܶܕ חַסֵּד reproach, revile, v. II. חסד)—only Impf. עִם־חָסִיד תִּתְחַסָּ֑ד thou shewest thyself kind 2 S 22:26 = ψ 18:26.—On Pr 25:10 v. II. חסד.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 25:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.10/#tree)

פֶּֽן־יְחַסֶּדְךָ֥ שֹׁמֵ֑עַ וְ֝דִבָּתְךָ֗ לֹ֣א תָשֽׁוּב׃

*Word for word:* lest he should.bring.you.shame \[one.who\].hears and your.bad report not it.will.turn.back

*JPS 1917:* Lest he that heareth it revile thee, and thine infamy turn not away.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5e1_5b7_5d3.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5e1_5b7_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).