STRONGS H2623:
Abbreviations
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חָסִיד adjective masculine kind, pious (so, as denoting active practice of
חֶסֶד, kindness, Thes MV De and most, compare
קָצִיר,
פָּקִיד etc.; > Hup on
Psalm 4:4 RVm who explained as passive
reception of
י׳'s
חֶסֶד, compare
שָֹׂכֹיר,
אָסִיר etc.; its use as attribute of God
Jeremiah 3:12;
Psalm 145:17, and the context
Psalm 12:1;
Micah 7:2 etc., favour active sense) —
ח׳ Psalm 4:4 +
9 times;
חֲסִידֶ֑ךָ Deuteronomy 33:8;
Psalm 89:20;
חֲסִידְי֯ךָ Psalm 16:10; plural
חֲסִידִים Psalm 149:1;
Psalm 149:5; suffix
חֲסִידָ֑י Psalm 50:5;
חֲסִידָו֯ 1 Samuel 2:9 +
15 times suffixes; —
1. kind:
b. of wing of ostrich
אִם אֶבְרָה חֲסִידָה Job 39:13 is it a kindly pinion? possibly with play on
חֲסִידָה feminine noun
stork (is the ostrich kind like the stork?).
2. pious, godly, either as exhibition of 'duteous love' toward God (Che
OP 378), or (in view of rarity of such passages as
Hosea 6:4, 6;
Jeremiah 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 —
גּוֺי לא חסיד a nation, not pious,＝
ungodly Psalm 43:1.
b. elsewhere as substantive: singular,
a pious man, the godly Psalm 4:4;
Psalm 12:2;
Psalm 32:6;
Psalm 86:2, ||
יָשָׁר Micah 7:2; (
thy)
pious one(
s)
Psalm 16:10 (Kt plural),
1 Samuel 2:9 (Qr plural)
Proverbs 2:8,
אִישׁ חֲסִידֶ֑ךָ men of thy pious one Deuteronomy 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
Psalm 149:1;
Psalm 149:5;
his pious ones Psalm 30:5;
Psalm 31:24;
Psalm 37:28;
Psalm 85:9;
Psalm 97:10;
Psalm 116:15;
Psalm 148:14;
Psalm 149:9;
thy pious ones Psalm 52:11;
Psalm 79:2;
Psalm 132:9 2 Chronicles 6:41;
Psalm 145:10;
my pious ones Psalm 50:5,
her (Zion's)
pious Psalm 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 Che
OP 48, 56; so perhaps
Psalm 116:15;
Psalm 149:1;
Psalm 149:5;
Psalm 149:9.)
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