1 Samuel 20:8:21 Sam.20.8.W2TAB
חֶ֙סֶד֙
khesed
“kindness”
- Transliteration
- KHE-sed
- Extended
- KHEH-sehd
- IPA
- /ˈħɛ.sɛd/
Meaning by language
- English
- kindness
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Samekh | s as in sit | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Dalet | d as in door |
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The word
Word in context
- word
KHE-sed
- phraseyour reading level
ve-a-SI-ta KHE-sed
- sentence
ve-a-SI-ta KHE-sed al-AV-de-KHA KI biv-RIT Ye-ho-VAH he-VE-ta et-AV-de-KHA im-MAKH
Exegesis
The Hiphil imperative channeni {חָנֵּנִי | ḥā-nê-nî} ‘deal kindly with me’ issues the request, modified by bechesed lekha {בְּחֶסֶד לְךָ | bə-ḥe-sed lə-ḵā} ‘in loyal devotion to you’.
Root and etymology
ḥ-s-dchet–samekh–dalet
“loyalty, kindness”
In context — 1 Samuel 20:8
Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the LORD with you. Yet if there is guilt in me, strike me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 20:8:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of 1 Samuel 20:8, so the Hebrew word חֶ֙סֶד֙ (khesed) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 1 Sam.20.8.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.20.8.W2.S1) and character.