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".