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  • From: "George Athas" <gathas AT hotkey.net.au>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: CHESED
  • Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 21:52:47 +1100


> 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)






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