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Hebrew

חֶ֫סֶד che·sed

“kindness” · 247 times in the Old Testament

Through the Bible

Genesis: 11 timesExodus: 4 timesLeviticus: onceNumbers: 2 timesDeuteronomy: 3 timesJoshua: 3 timesJudges: 2 timesRuth: 3 times1 Samuel: 4 times2 Samuel: 12 times1 Kings: 5 times2 Kings: 0 times1 Chronicles: 5 times2 Chronicles: 10 timesEzra: 3 timesNehemiah: 5 timesEsther: 2 timesJob: 3 timesPsalms: 127 timesProverbs: 11 timesEcclesiastes: 0 timesSong of Songs: 0 timesIsaiah: 8 timesJeremiah: 6 timesLamentations: 2 timesEzekiel: 0 timesDaniel: 2 timesHosea: 6 timesJoel: onceAmos: 0 timesObadiah: 0 timesJonah: 2 timesMicah: 3 timesNahum: 0 timesHabakkuk: 0 timesZephaniah: 0 timesHaggai: 0 timesZechariah: onceMalachi: 0 timesMatthew: 3 timesMark: 0 timesLuke: 6 timesJohn: 0 timesActs: 0 timesRomans: 3 times1 Corinthians: 0 times2 Corinthians: 0 timesGalatians: onceEphesians: oncePhilippians: 0 timesColossians: 0 times1 Thessalonians: 0 times2 Thessalonians: 0 times1 Timothy: once2 Timothy: 3 timesTitus: oncePhilemon: 0 timesHebrews: onceJames: 3 times1 Peter: once2 Peter: 0 times1 John: 0 times2 John: once3 John: 0 timesJude: 2 timesRevelation: 0 timesLawHistoryWisdomProphetsGospelsLetters
  • “loving devotion” 172
  • “kindness” 29
  • “according to your loving devotion” 6
  • “favor” 4
  • “loyalty” 3
  • other ways 33
  • eleos, the Greek the New Testament uses for it 27

In the New Testament it continues as eleos: Matthew 9:13 quotes Hosea 6:6, and puts this word in Greek.

As a table, book by book
BookTimes
Genesis11
Exodus4
Leviticus1
Numbers2
Deuteronomy3
Joshua3
Judges2
Ruth3
1 Samuel4
2 Samuel12
1 Kings5
1 Chronicles5
2 Chronicles10
Ezra3
Nehemiah5
Esther2
Job3
Psalms127
Proverbs11
Isaiah8
Jeremiah6
Lamentations2
Daniel2
Hosea6
Joel1
Jonah2
Micah3
Zechariah1
Matthew3
Luke6
Romans3
Galatians1
Ephesians1
1 Timothy1
2 Timothy3
Titus1
Hebrews1
James3
1 Peter1
2 John1
Jude2

How the BSB translates it

Each way the Berean Standard Bible puts it into English, and how often.

  1. loving devotion172
  2. kindness29
  3. according to your loving devotion6
  4. favor4
  5. deeds of loving devotion3
  6. loyalty3
  7. mercy3
  8. disgrace2
  9. love2
  10. loving devotion endures forever2
  11. act of loving devotion1
  12. can your loving devotion1
  13. 19 other ways19
Its meanings, as STEP Bible divides them
  • kindness 245
  • shame 2

With a pronoun joined

Hebrew joins “me”, “you”, “him” and the like to the end of a word.

Where it occurs

Grouped by how it’s translated, then by book. Each reference opens the verse.

“loving devotion” 172

  • Exodus 4

    • 15:13 With loving devotion You will lead the…
    • 20:6 …but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations…
    • 34:6 …slow to anger abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness…
    • 34:7 …maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations…

  • Numbers 2

    • 14:18 …to anger and abounding in loving devotion forgiving iniquity and transgression…
    • 14:19 …keeping with the greatness of Your loving devotion just as You have…

  • Deuteronomy 3

    • 5:10 …but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations…
    • 7:9 …who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations…
    • 7:12 …keep His covenant and the loving devotion that He swore to…

  • Ruth 1

    • 1:8 …the LORD show you loving devotion as you have shown…

  • 1 Samuel 2

    • 20:14 …me with the LORD’s loving devotion that I may not…
    • 20:15 …not ever cut off your loving devotion from my household not…

  • 2 Samuel 3

    • 2:6 …the LORD show you loving devotion and faithfulness and I…
    • 7:15 But My loving devotion will never be removed…
    • 22:51 …His king He shows loving devotion to His anointed to…

  • 1 Kings 4

    • 2:7 …But show loving devotion to the sons of…
    • 3:6 …You have shown much loving devotion to Your servant my…
    • 3:6 …You have maintained this loving devotion by giving him a…
    • 8:23 …below keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who…

  • 1 Chronicles 3

    • 16:34 …for He is good His loving devotion endures forever…
    • 16:41 …to the LORD for His loving devotion endures forever…
    • 17:13 …I will never remove My loving devotion from him as I…

  • 2 Chronicles 6

    • 1:8 …You have shown much loving devotion to my father David…
    • 6:14 …earth keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who…
    • 6:42 …Your anointed one Remember Your loving devotion to Your servant David…
    • 7:3 …For He is good His loving devotion endures forever…
    • 7:6 …offered praise saying For His loving devotion endures forever Across from…
    • 20:21 …to the LORD for His loving devotion endures forever…

  • Ezra 1

    • 3:11 …He is good for His loving devotion to Israel endures forever…

  • Nehemiah 3

    • 1:5 …who keeps His covenant of loving devotion with those who love…
    • 9:17 …to anger and rich in loving devotion and You did not…
    • 13:22 …according to Your abundant loving devotion

  • Job 2

    • 10:12 …have granted me life and loving devotion and Your care has…
    • 37:13 …land He accomplishes this in His loving devotion

  • Psalms 46

    • 5:7 …house by the abundance of Your loving devotion in reverence I will…
    • 6:4 …save me because of Your loving devotion
    • 13:5 …But I have trusted in Your loving devotion my heart will rejoice…
    • 17:7 …Show the wonders of Your loving devotion You who save by…
    • 18:50 …His king He shows loving devotion to His anointed to…
    • 25:6 …O LORD Your compassion and loving devotion for they are from…
    • 25:7 …remember me according to Your loving devotion because of Your goodness…
    • 26:3 …For Your loving devotion is before my eyes…
    • 31:7 …be glad and rejoice in Your loving devotion for You have seen…
    • 31:16 …Your servant save me by Your loving devotion
    • 31:21 …He has shown me His loving devotion in a city under…
    • 32:10 …sorrows of the wicked but loving devotion surrounds him who trusts…
    • 33:5 …is full of His loving devotion
    • 33:18 …on those whose hope is in His loving devotion
    • 33:22 May Your loving devotion rest on us O…
    • 36:5 Your loving devotion O LORD reaches to…
    • 36:7 …How precious is Your loving devotion O God that the…
    • 36:10 …Extend Your loving devotion to those who know…
    • 40:10 …I have not concealed Your loving devotion and faithfulness from the…
    • 40:11 …Your mercy from me Your loving devotion and faithfulness will always…
    • 42:8 …The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day and at…
    • 44:26 …us on account of Your loving devotion
    • 48:9 …O God we contemplate Your loving devotion
    • 52:1 …evil O mighty man The loving devotion of God endures all…
    • 52:8 …of God I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and…
    • 57:3 …Selah God sends forth His loving devotion and His truth…
    • 57:10 …For Your loving devotion reaches to the heavens…
    • 59:10 …My God of loving devotion will come to meet…
    • 59:16 …Your strength and proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning For…
    • 59:17 …my fortress my God of loving devotion
    • 61:7 …God’s presence forever appoint Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness to…
    • 62:12 and loving devotion to You O Lord…
    • 63:3 …Because Your loving devotion is better than life…
    • 66:20 …or withheld from me His loving devotion
    • 69:13 …favor In Your abundant loving devotion O God answer me…
    • 69:16 …me O LORD for Your loving devotion is good turn to…
    • 77:8 Is His loving devotion gone forever Has His…
    • 85:7 …Show us Your loving devotion O LORD and grant…
    • 85:10 Loving devotion and faithfulness have joined…
    • 86:5 …kind and forgiving rich in loving devotion to all who call…
    • 86:13 …For great is Your loving devotion to me You have…
    • 86:15 …slow to anger abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness…
    • 89:1 …Ezrahite I will sing of the loving devotion of the LORD forever…
    • 89:2 …For I have said Loving devotion is built up forever…
    • 89:14 …foundation of Your throne loving devotion and faithfulness go before…
    • 89:24 …My faithfulness and loving devotion will be with him…

And 92 more, on the full page.

“kindness” 29

  • Genesis 9

    • 19:19 …have shown me great kindness by sparing my life…
    • 24:12 …success today and show kindness to my master Abraham…
    • 24:14 …that You have shown kindness to my master…
    • 24:27 …who has not withheld His kindness and faithfulness from my…
    • 24:49 …if you will show kindness and faithfulness to my…
    • 32:10 …am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have…
    • 39:21 …with him and extended kindness to him granting him…
    • 40:14 …me and show me kindness by mentioning me to…
    • 47:29 …promise to show me kindness and faithfulness Do not…

  • Joshua 3

    • 2:12 …family because I showed kindness to you Give me…
    • 2:12 …you will indeed show kindness to my family because…
    • 2:14 …we will show you kindness and faithfulness when the…

  • Judges 1

    • 8:35 …They did not show kindness to the house of…

  • Ruth 1

    • 2:20 …who has not withdrawn His kindness from the living or…

  • 1 Samuel 2

    • 15:6 …Kenites Since you showed kindness to all the Israelites…
    • 20:8 …Therefore show kindness to your servant for…

  • 2 Samuel 6

    • 2:5 …because you showed this kindness to Saul your lord…
    • 9:1 …whom I can show kindness for the sake of…
    • 9:3 …whom I can show the kindness of God Ziba answered…
    • 9:7 …I will show you kindness for the sake of…
    • 10:2 …said I will show kindness to Hanun son of…
    • 10:2 …as his father showed kindness to me So David…

  • 1 Chronicles 2

    • 19:2 …said I will show kindness to Hanun son of…
    • 19:2 …because his father showed kindness to me So David…

  • 2 Chronicles 1

    • 24:22 …Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada…

  • Psalms 3

    • 106:7 …or remember Your abundant kindness but they rebelled by…
    • 109:12 …no one to extend kindness to him and no…
    • 109:16 …never thought to show kindness but pursued the poor…

  • Isaiah 1

    • 54:8 …moment but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion…
“according to your loving devotion” 6

  • Psalms 6

    • 51:1 …on me O God according to Your loving devotion according to Your great…
    • 109:26 …my God save me according to Your loving devotion
    • 119:88 …Revive me according to Your loving devotion that I may obey…
    • 119:124 …Deal with Your servant according to Your loving devotion and teach me Your…
    • 119:149 …my voice O LORD according to Your loving devotion give me life according…
    • 119:159 …LORD give me life according to Your loving devotion
“favor” 4

  • Ezra 1

    • 7:28 …who has shown me favor before the king his…

  • Esther 2

    • 2:9 …him and obtained his favor so he quickly provided…
    • 2:17 …and she found grace and favor in his sight more…

  • Daniel 1

    • 1:9 …God had granted Daniel favor and compassion from the…
“loyalty” 3

  • Genesis 1

    • 20:13 …how you can show your loyalty to me Wherever we…

  • 2 Samuel 1

    • 16:17 …Is this the loyalty you show your friend…

  • Hosea 1

    • 6:4 …with you O Judah For your loyalty is like a morning…
“deeds of loving devotion” 3

  • 2 Chronicles 2

    • 32:32 …the acts of Hezekiah and his deeds of loving devotion they are indeed written…
    • 35:26 …the acts of Josiah and his deeds of loving devotion according to what is…

  • Nehemiah 1

    • 13:14 …do not blot out my deeds of loving devotion for the house of…
“mercy” 3

  • Psalms 1

    • 23:6 …Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all…

  • Hosea 1

    • 6:6 …For I desire mercy not sacrifice and the…

  • Micah 1

    • 6:8 …act justly to love mercy and to walk humbly…
“disgrace” 2

  • Leviticus 1

    • 20:17 …have sexual relations it is a disgrace They must be cut…

  • Proverbs 1

    • 14:34 …a nation but sin is a disgrace to any people…
“loving devotion endures forever” 2

  • 2 Chronicles 1

    • 5:13 …For He is good His loving devotion endures forever And the temple the…

  • Psalms 1

    • 106:1 …for He is good His loving devotion endures forever
“love” 2

  • Psalms 1

    • 98:3 …He has remembered His love and faithfulness to the…

  • Hosea 1

    • 12:6 …to your God maintain love and justice and always…
“same kindness” 1

  • Genesis 1

    • 21:23 …in which you reside the same kindness that I have shown…
“kindly” 1

  • Judges 1

    • 1:24 …we will treat you kindly
“more kindness” 1

  • Ruth 1

    • 3:10 …daughter You have shown more kindness now than before because…
“loyal” 1

  • 2 Samuel 1

    • 3:8 …asked All this time I have been loyal to the house of…
“LORD show you loving devotion” 1

  • 2 Samuel 1

    • 15:20 …your brothers with you May the LORD show you loving devotion and faithfulness…
“merciful” 1

  • 1 Kings 1

    • 20:31 …the house of Israel are merciful Let us go out…
“grace” 1

  • Ezra 1

    • 9:9 …has extended to us grace in the sight of…
“gracious” 1

  • Nehemiah 1

    • 9:32 …awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant do not view…
“should have the kindness” 1

  • Job 1

    • 6:14 …A despairing man should have the kindness of his friend even…
“through the loving devotion” 1

  • Psalms 1

    • 21:7 …trusts in the LORD through the loving devotion of the Most High…
“loving and faithful” 1

  • Psalms 1

    • 25:10 …All the LORD’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep…
“can your loving devotion” 1

  • Psalms 1

    • 88:11 Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the…
“loving devotion for him” 1

  • Psalms 1

    • 89:28 …I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him and My covenant with…
“act of loving devotion” 1

  • Psalms 1

    • 141:5 …me let his rebuke be an act of loving devotion It is oil for…
“steadfast love” 1

  • Psalms 1

    • 144:2 He is my steadfast love and my fortress my…
“kind” 1

  • Proverbs 1

    • 11:17 A kind man benefits himself but…
“these” 1

  • Proverbs 1

    • 20:28 …faithfulness preserve a king by these he maintains his throne…
“faithful” 1

  • Proverbs 1

    • 31:26 …her mouth with wisdom and faithful instruction is on her…
“glory” 1

  • Isaiah 1

    • 40:6 …like grass and all its glory like the flowers of…
“devout” 1

  • Isaiah 1

    • 57:1 …takes it to heart devout men are taken away…
“devotion” 1

  • Jeremiah 1

    • 2:2 …LORD says I remember the devotion of your youth your…

The Hebrew and Greek words, their glosses and grammar: STEP Bible (CC BY 4.0). The English: the Berean Standard Bible, which also gives which English words render which. Counts are ours.