חָסִיד
châçîyd · H2623 · Hebrew · 32 occurrences
Meanings
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loyal person, faithful person, godly person
Someone who practices חֶסֶד, who is committed towards fulfilling his/her obligations; these may be obligations defined within the context of a covenant or agreement, or moral obligations to do well to someone who did well to you before
ExamplesDeuteronomy 33:8 Of Levi he said, “Let Your Thummim and Your Urim belong to Your godly man, Whom You tested at Massah, With whom You contended at the waters of Meribah;
1 Samuel 2:9 “He watches over the feet of His godly ones, But the wicked ones are silenced in darkness; For not by might shall a person prevail.
2 Samuel 22:26 “With the one who is faithful You show Yourself faithful, With the blameless one You prove Yourself blameless;
How it’s used In 8 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
20 occurrences in 4 groups
- הוּhis 10
- ךָyour 8
- יmy 1
- הּher 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כָּרַתto cut off, to make (a covenant) 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אִישׁman, person, each 1
What it doesIt is the subject
8 occurrences in 7 groups
- רָנַןto sing for joy, to shout for joy 2
- בָרַךְto bless 1
- גָּמַרto disappear 1
- עָלַזto rejoice 1
- אָבַדto perish, to destroy 1
- פָּלַלto pray, to intercede 1
What is done to itIt is the object
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
- עָזַבto forsake, to leave 1
- אָסַףto gather, to assemble 1
- פָּלָהto set apart, to make a distinction 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֲנִיI 2
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
8 occurrences in 4 groups
- לto/for 5
- עִםwith 4
- אֵלto, toward 1
- נֶגֶדbefore, opposite 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
5 occurrences in 5 groups
- בָּשָׂרflesh 1
- דֶּרֶךְway, road 1
- נֶפֶשׁsoul, life 1
- קָהָלassembly, congregation, company 1
- רֶגֶלfoot, leg 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- יָשָׁר yâshâr · H3477 · straight, "straight way" = safe journey
- Both words denote moral and ethical rectitude: "godly, holy" and "upright, just, righteous" overlap substantially in describing persons faithful to covenantal or ethical norms.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ὅσιος hósios · G3741 · holy, pure, divine
- Greek ὅσιος emphasizes intrinsic divine or moral rightness, while Hebrew חָסִיד emphasizes covenant loyalty and faithful devotion to God; both denote one who is holy/godly in character, with the Greek focusing on inherent righteousness and the Hebrew on relational piety.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Faithful002001002008
- The word denotes a godly or faithful person, one marked by covenant loyalty toward God, an adjective applied throughout the Psalms to describe the righteous.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2623. chasid חָסִיד adjective masculine kind, pious (so, as denoting active practice of…
חָסִיד adjective masculine kind, pious (so, as denoting active practice of חֶסֶד, kindness, Thes MV De and most, compare מָּקִיד קָצִיר, etc.; > Hup on Psa 4:4 RVm who explained as passive reception of ׳יs חֶסֶד, compare אָסִיר שָֹׂכֹיר, etc.; its use as attribute of God Jer 3:12; Psa 145:17, and the context Psa 12:1; Mic 7:2 etc., favour active sense) — ׳ח Psa 4:4 9t.; חֲסִידֶ֑ךָ Deu 33:8; Psa 89:20; חֲסִידְי֯ךָ Psa 16:10; plural חֲסִידִים Psa 149:1; Psa 149:5; suffix חֲסִידָ֑י Psa 50:5; חֲסִידָו֯ 1Sa 2:9 1Sa 2:15t. suffixes; —
1 kind:
a. of man ח ׳עם תתחסד with the kind thou shewest thyself kind 2Sa 22:26 = Psa 18:26.
b. of wing of ostrich חֲסִידָה אֶבְרָה אִם Job 39:13 is it a kindly pinion? possibly with play on חֲסִידָה feminine noun strok (is the ostrich kind like the stork?).
c. of God, only Jer 3:12; Psa 145:17.
2 pious, godly, either as exhibition of 'duteous love' toward God (CheOP 378), or (in view of rarity of such passages as Hos 6:4, Hos 6:6; Jer 2:2, and their possible ambiguity) because kindness, as prominent in the godly, comes to imply other attributes, and to be a designation of the godly character, piety:
a. as adjective — חסיד לא גּוֺי a nation, not pious, = ungodly Psa 43:1.
b. elsewhere as substantive: singular, a pious man, the godly Psa 4:4; Psa 12:2; Psa 32:6; Psa 86:2, || יָשָׁר Mic 7:2; (thy) pious one(s) Psa 16:10 (Kt plural), 1Sa 2:9 (Qr plural) Pro 2:8, חֲסִידֶ֑ךָ אִישׁ men of thy pious one Deu 33:8 (Moses, see Di; others, the man, thy godly one, i.e. Levi); plural the pious, godly, those of the people who were faithful, devoted to God's service, only in Psalter and chiefly, if not entirely, in late Psalms Psa 149:1; Psa 149:5; his pious ones Psa 30:5; Psa 31:24; Psa 37:28; Psa 85:9; Psa 97:10; Psa 116:15; Psa 148:14; Psa 149:9; thy pious ones Psalm 52:11; Psa 79:2; Psa 132:9 2Ch 6:41; Psa 145:10; my pious ones Psa 50:5, her (Zion's) pious Psa 132:16. — (In Maccabean age, συναγωγὴ Ἀσιδαίων denoted, technically, the party of the pious, who opposed the Hellenization of the Judaea, see 1Macc 2:42; 7:13; 2 Macc 14:6 and CheOP 48, 56; so perhaps Psa 116:15; Psa 149:1; Psa 149:5; Psa 149:9.)
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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