Hebrew Study
Strong’s Concordance H2617
A readable Hebrew dictionary entry from Strong’s Concordance. Definitions help with word study; the meaning in a verse still depends on context.
Word study
- Source
- Strong’s Concordance
- Transliteration
- checed
- Pronunciation
- kheh'-sed
- Occurrences
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- Strong’s number
- H2617
- Brief meaning
- Kindness, by implication (towards God) piety: rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty
- Source renderings
- favour, good deed(-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-)kindness, merciful (kindness), mercy, pity, reproach, wicked thing
- Root word
- from H2616
- Full definition from the source
- Kindness; by implication (towards God) piety: rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty. Root word: from H2616.
- Digital-source-added cross-reference note
- H2616
Source info
Source and edition
James Strong, Strong's Hebrew Bible Dictionary (1890); Bible Foundation text source; Michael Grier's 1996 ASCII e-text; CrossWire module 1.2.
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02617\ 2617 checed kheh'-sed from 2616; 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. see HEBREW for 02616