--- title: חָסִיד — kind · The Tanakh dictionary description: חָסִיד (2623), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 32 times: kind. BDB 1906: adj.m. kind, pious. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2623.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [ח](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1495-4.md)‎ / חָסִיד‎ # חָסִיד «חָסִיד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **kind** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 32 times · **Key:** 2623 · **BDB:** חָסִיד ### Glosses your.faithful (8); his.faithful (7); \[the\].faithful (3) ### Meaning (OSHB) kind [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2623/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) adj.m. kind, pious [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2623/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** adj.m. kind, pious (so, as denoting active practice of חֶסֶד, kindness, Thes MV De and most, cf. קָצִיר, פָּקִיד etc.; \> Hup on ψ 4:4 RVm who expl. as passive reception of י׳’s חֶסֶד, cf. שָׂכִיר, אָסִיר etc.; its use as attribute of God Je 3:12 ψ 145:17, and the context ψ 12:1 Mi 7:2 etc., favour active sense)—ח׳ ψ 4:4 + 9 times; חֲסִידֶ֑ךָ Dt 33:8 ψ 89:20; חֲסִידְיךָ֯ ψ 16:10; pl. חֲסִידִים ψ 149:1, 5; sf. חֲסִידָ֑י ψ 50:5; חֲסִידָו֯ 1 S 2:9 + 15 times sfs.;— kind: of man עם ח׳ תתחסד with the kind thou shewest thyself kind 2 S 22:26 = ψ 18:26. of wing of ostrich אִם אֶבְרָה חֲסִידָה Jb 39:13 is it a kindly pinion? poss. with play on חֲסִידָה n.f. stork (is the ostrich kind like the stork?). of God, only Je 3:12 ψ 145:17. pious, godly, either as exhibition of ‘duteous love’ toward God (CheOP 378), or (in view of rarity of such passages as Ho 6:4, 6; Je 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: as adj.—גּוֹי לא חסיד a nation, not pious, = ungodly ψ 43:1. elsewhere as subst.: sing., a pious man, the godly ψ 4:4; 12:2; 32:6; 86:2, ‖ יָשָׁר Mi 7:2; (thy) pious one(s) ψ 16:10 (Kt pl.), 1 S 2:9 (Qr pl.) Pr 2:8, אִישׁ חֲסִידֶ֑ךָ men of thy pious one Dt 33:8 (Moses, v. Di; others, the man, thy godly one, i.e. Levi); pl. 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 ψ 149:1, 5; his pious ones ψ 30:5; 31:24; 37:28; 85:9; 97:10; 116:15; 148:14; 149:9; thy pious ones ψ 52:11; 79:2; 89:20; 132:9 = 2 Ch 6:41, ψ 145:10; my pious ones ψ 50:5, her (Zion’s) pious ψ 132:16.—(In Maccab. age, συναγωγὴ Ἀσιδαίων denoted, technically, the party of the pious, who opposed the Hellenization of Judaea, v. 1 Macc 2:42; cf. 7:13 2 Macc 14:6 and CheOP 48, 56; so perhaps ψ 116:15; 149:1, 5, 9.) Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 32 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «חָסִיד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2623/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [2 Samuel 22:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.26/) עִם־חָסִ֖יד תִּתְחַסָּ֑ד עִם־גִּבּ֥וֹר תָּמִ֖ים תִּתַּמָּֽם׃ *Word for word:* with a.faithful.\[person\] you.show.yourself.faithful with a.mighty.\[man\] blameless you.show.yourself.blameless *JPS 1917:* With the merciful Thou dost show Thyself merciful, with the upright man Thou dost show Thyself upright, [Psalms 18:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.26/) עִם־חָסִ֥יד תִּתְחַסָּ֑ד עִם־גְּבַ֥ר תָּ֝מִ֗ים תִּתַּמָּֽם׃ *Word for word:* with a.faithful.\[person\] you.show.yourself.faithful with a.man blameless you.show.yourself.blameless *JPS 1917:* With the merciful Thou dost show Thyself merciful, with the upright man Thou dost show Thyself upright; - ← previous: [חָסוּת](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2622.md) - next →: [חֲסִידָה](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2624.md) - ↑ back to [ח](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1495-4.md)