Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Christine Bass" <christinebass AT home.com>]

The understanding I have of the word chesed is that it is translated as
grace, mercy or lovingkindness.
>From "The Place of Faith and Grace in Judaism" by David R.Blumenthal.

Christine Bass



----- Original Message -----
From: "George Athas" <gathas AT hotkey.net.au>
To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 5:52 AM
Subject: CHESED


> > 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)
>
>
>