Not all Israel's persistent waywardness could ever destroy it. Though Israel be faithless, yet God remains faithful still. This steady, persistent refusal of God to wash his hands of wayward Israel is the essential meaning of the Hebrew word which is translated loving-kindness.
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When we understand Paul’s background in three languages, perhaps we find a clue to what kindness really means in Paul’s thought and in the Bible. The Hebrew word chesed is used in the Old Testament to describe the loving kindness of God, as our hymn said this morning. Chesed is central to all Jewish theology.
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Chesed (חסד, also Romanized ẖesed) is a Hebrew word commonly translated as loving-kindness, kindness or love.. Chesed is central to Jewish ethics and Jewish theology and is a common term in the Bible for describing God’s love for humankind and God’s special relationship with the Children of Israel. Chesed is valued by religious Jews of all denominations.
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The origin of the word kindness is from the Anglo-Saxon kind or kin, which means family, as in kin, kinship, and kindred. That Saxon word, or German word, can also mean child, as in the word kindergarten. Kindness was gentle and caring affection toward a child, a family member, or even an animal.
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There is one case in the Psalms (141:5) where the word chesed is used of man's attitude to man, and even here Coverdale avoids 'kindness' (so AV and RV), but has 'friendly.' The nearest New Testament equivalent to the Hebrew chesed is charis (grace), as Luther realized when he used the German Gnade for both words.
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English versions usually try to represent it with such words as loving-kindness, mercy, steadfast love, and sometimes loyalty, but the full meaning of the word cannot be conveyed without an explanation, such as the one given in the article below.
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Otherwise he used 'mercy,' 'goodness,' and 'great kindness' in the Psalms for God's attitude to man; and, outside the Psalms, such words as 'mercy,' 'goodness,' 'favour' for God's attitude to man, and 'kindness' for man's attitude to man.
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Loving-kindness is also often used as an English translation of chesed, originating with the Coverdale Bible of 1535. Although some consider it to be a somewhat archaic translation, it remains one of the most common translations. Love is often used as a shorter English translation.
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Greek and Latin[edit] Eleos (often understood as mercy or pity) is the word used by the Septuagint to translate Chesed into Greek. The Latin (Vulgate) translation of the Bible by Jerome used the Latin equivalent, misericordia.
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This is a biblical word, invented by Miles Coverdale, and carried over into the English versions generally. It is one of the words he used in the Psalms (23 times, plus Hosea 2:19) to translate the Hebrew chesed when it refers to God's love for his people Israel.
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hebrew word for kindness
Hebrew word for kindness is chesed. The hebrew word for kindness is חסד.