che.sed H2617

חֶ֫סֶד (che.sed) means “kindness” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

חֶ֫סֶד Hebrew · H2617 247 tagged occurrences in 241 verses

Pronunciation guide: kheh'-sed Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H2617A

חֶ֫סֶד · che.sed · kindness

goodness, kindness, faithfulness

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TBESH · H2617B

חֶ֫סֶד · che.sed · shame

a reproach, shame

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H2616 (חָסַד); kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty

KJV glosses: favour, good deed(-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-) kindness, merciful (kindness), mercy, pity, reproach, wicked thing.

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How translators render H2617

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
his loving devotion	45
loving devotion	28
your loving devotion	26
kindness	24
in loving devotion	12
of loving devotion	8
according to your loving devotion	6
and loving devotion	6
my loving devotion	5
of your loving devotion	5
the loving devotion	5
for his loving devotion	4
favor	3
the kindness	3
and his deeds of loving devotion	2
his kindness	2
his loving devotion endures forever	2
in his loving devotion	2
in your loving devotion	2
is a disgrace	2
is his loving devotion	2
is loving devotion	2
is your loving devotion	2
may your loving devotion	2
mercy	2
with loving devotion	2
with your loving devotion	2
a kind	1
and faithful	1
and favor	1
and his loving devotion	1
and in your loving devotion	1
and mercy	1
are loving and faithful	1
are merciful	1
be an act of loving devotion	1
but loving devotion	1
but my loving devotion	1
by loving devotion	1
by these	1
by your loving devotion	1
can your loving devotion	1
devout	1
for your loyalty	1
grace	1
he is my steadfast love	1
his gracious	1
his love	1
i have been loyal	1
in the loving devotion	1
is in his loving devotion	1
its glory	1
kindly	1
let loving devotion	1
love	1
may the lord show you loving devotion	1
more kindness	1
my deeds of loving devotion	1
my loving devotion for him	1
of his loving devotion	1
of the loving devotion	1
should have the kindness	1
the devotion	1
the loyalty	1
the same kindness	1
through the loving devotion	1
you with loving devotion	1
your loyalty	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
for his mercy	33
mercy	30
kindness	20
and mercy	7
of thy mercy	6
kindly	5
thy lovingkindness	5
his goodness	4
lovingkindness	4
thy mercy	4
because his mercy	3
for thy lovingkindness	3
for thy mercy	3
his mercy	3
in mercy	3
that his mercy	3
according to thy lovingkindness	2
and favour	2
and his goodness	2
by mercy	2
his kindness	2
in his mercy	2
in thy mercy	2
is his mercy	2
me for thy mercies	2
mercies	2
my mercy	2
of his mercies	2
of my mercy	2
thy kindness	2
a kindness	1
a reproach	1
a wicked thing	1
according to the kindness	1
according to thy mercy	1
according unto thy lovingkindness	1
according unto thy mercy	1
and all the goodliness	1
and in lovingkindness	1
and in mercy	1
and merciful	1
and my mercy	1
and of thy mercy	1
and the mercy	1
and through the mercy	1
and thy lovingkindnesses	1
because thy lovingkindness	1
but mercy	1
but my kindness	1
but my mercy	1
but the mercy	1
concerneth me thy mercy	1
for his merciful	1
him kindness	1
him mercy	1
his lovingkindness	1
his own goodness	1
in goodness	1
in the mercy	1
into favour	1
let i pray thee thy merciful kindness	1
let not mercy	1
let thy lovingkindness	1
let thy mercies	1
let thy mercy	1
lovingkindnesses	1
man the goodness	1
me according to thy mercy	1
me after thy lovingkindness	1
me the kindness	1
merciful	1
more kindness	1
my good	1
my goodness	1
nevertheless my lovingkindness	1
nor his mercy	1
nor mercy	1
not the kindness	1
of all the mercies	1
of his lovingkindnesses	1
of his mercy	1
of it for his mercy	1
of kindness	1
of mercy	1
of the goodness	1
of the mercies	1
of thy lovingkindness	1
of thy mercies	1
or for mercy	1
pity	1
sake because thy mercy	1
shall thy lovingkindness	1
the kindness	1
the lovingkindness	1
the lovingkindnesses	1
the mercies	1
the merciful	1
the mercy	1
thee kindness	1
thee mercy	1
thee the kindness	1
thee with lovingkindness	1
their own mercy	1
them for his mercy	1
therefore with lovingkindness	1
they kindness	1
this kindness	1
this thy kindness	1
thou in thy mercy	1
unto thee for your goodness	1
us for thy mercies	1
us thy mercy	1
with thy mercy	1
you kindness	1

Verses containing H2617

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Psalms 147:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD is pleased with those who fear Him, who hope in His loving devotion.
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Proverbs 3:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
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Proverbs 11:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A kind man benefits himself, but a cruel man brings trouble on himself.
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Proverbs 14:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not those who contrive evil go astray? But those who plan goodness find loving devotion and faithfulness.
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Proverbs 14:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.
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Proverbs 16:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
By loving devotion and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns aside from evil.
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Proverbs 19:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The desire of a man is loving devotion; better to be poor than a liar.
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Proverbs 20:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Many a man proclaims his loving devotion, but who can find a trustworthy man?
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Proverbs 20:28 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Loving devotion and faithfulness preserve a king; by these he maintains his throne.
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Proverbs 21:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He who pursues righteousness and loving devotion finds life, righteousness, and honor.
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Proverbs 31:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
She opens her mouth with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
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Isaiah 16:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
in loving devotion a throne will be established in the tent of David. A judge seeking justice and hastening righteousness will sit on it in faithfulness.
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Isaiah 40:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.
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Isaiah 54:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.
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Isaiah 54:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
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Isaiah 55:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.
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Isaiah 57:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one considers that the righteous are taken away from the presence of evil.
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Isaiah 63:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us—the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion.
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Jeremiah 2:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
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Jeremiah 9:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.
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Source alternate reference: 9.23
Jeremiah 16:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal. Do not go to mourn or show sympathy, for I have removed from this people My peace, My loving devotion, and My compassion,” declares the LORD.
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Jeremiah 31:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
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Jeremiah 32:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You show loving devotion to thousands but lay the iniquity of the fathers into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of Hosts,
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Jeremiah 33:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those bringing thank offerings into the house of the LORD, saying: ‘Give thanks to the LORD of Hosts, for the LORD is good; His loving devotion endures forever.’ For I will restore the land from captivity as in former times, says the LORD.
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Lamentations 3:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.
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Lamentations 3:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.
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Daniel 1:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now God had granted Daniel favor and compassion from the chief official,
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Daniel 9:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments,
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Hosea 2:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion.
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Source alternate reference: 2.21
Hosea 4:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land!
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Hosea 6:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.
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Hosea 6:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
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Hosea 10:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
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Hosea 12:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice, and always wait on your God.
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Source alternate reference: 12.7
Joel 2:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.
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Jonah 2:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
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Source alternate reference: 2.9
Jonah 4:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.
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Micah 6:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
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Micah 7:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
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Micah 7:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.
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Zechariah 7:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
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