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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.

  • Esther 2:17
    And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
  • Job 6:14
    To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
  • Job 10:12
    Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
  • Job 37:13
    He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
  • Psalms 5:7
    But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
  • Psalms 6:4
    Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.
  • Psalms 13:5
    But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
  • Psalms 17:7
    Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.
  • Psalms 18:50
    Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.
  • Psalms 21:7
    For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.