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Strong's numbers

חֵסֵד (H2617)

chêçêd

kheh'-sed

from חָסַד; kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty; favour, good deed(-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-) kindness, merciful (kindness), mercy, pity, reproach, wicked thing.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

חֶ֫סֶד n.m. shame, reproach
חֶ֫סֶד 247 n.m. goodness, kindness
I of man:
1 kindness of men toward men, in doing favours and benefits
2 kindness (especially as extended to the lowly, needy and miserable), mercy
3 (rarely) affection of Isr. to י׳, love to God, piety
4 lovely appearance
II of God: kindness, lovingkindness in condescending to the needs of his creatures.

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.

241 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Hosea 6:4
    O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
  • Hosea 6:6
    For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
  • Hosea 10:12
    Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
  • Hosea 12:6
    Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
  • Joel 2:13
    And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
  • Jonah 2:8
    They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
  • Jonah 4:2
    And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
  • Micah 6:8
    He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
  • Micah 7:18
    Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
  • Micah 7:20
    Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.