Biblical Hebrew Forum

["George Athas" <gathas AT hotkey.net.au>]

> The second question might refer to a different word altogether--khesed,
> which is notoriously difficult to translate into English but probably gets
> rendered both as "righteousness" and "charity" in English versions. It is
> often understood as something like "covenant faithfulness," but I don't
> know that that really captures the sense either. 

It's not that hard to translate CHESED into English. I go for either 
"commitment" or "devotion".

Best regards,

GEORGE ATHAS
(Sydney, Australia)