חָסִיד

adj.m. kind, pious (so, as denoting active practice of חֶסֶד, kindness, Thes MV De and most, cf. קָצִיר, פָּקִיד etc.; > Hup on ψ 4:4 RVm who expl. as passive reception of י׳’s חֶסֶד, cf. שָׂכִיר, אָסִיר etc.; its use as attribute of God Je 3:12 ψ 145:17, and the context ψ 12:1 Mi 7:2 etc., favour active sense)—ח׳ ψ 4:4 + 9 times; חֲסִידֶ֑ךָ Dt 33:8 ψ 89:20; חֲסִידְיךָ֯ ψ 16:10; pl. חֲסִידִים ψ 149:1, 5; sf. חֲסִידָ֑י ψ 50:5; חֲסִידָו֯ 1 S 2:9 + 15 times sfs.;— kind: of man עם ח׳ תתחסד with the kind thou shewest thyself kind 2 S 22:26 = ψ 18:26. of wing of ostrich אִם אֶבְרָה חֲסִידָה Jb 39:13 is it a kindly pinion? poss. with play on חֲסִידָה n.f. stork (is the ostrich kind like the stork?). of God, only Je 3:12 ψ 145:17. pious, godly, either as exhibition of ‘duteous love’ toward God (CheOP 378), or (in view of rarity of such passages as Ho 6:4, 6; Je 2:2, and their possible ambiguity) because kindness, as prominent in the godly, comes to imply other attributes, and to be a designation of the godly character, piety: as adj.—גּוֹי לא חסיד a nation, not pious, = ungodly ψ 43:1. elsewhere as subst.: sing., a pious man, the godly ψ 4:4; 12:2; 32:6; 86:2, ‖ יָשָׁר Mi 7:2; (thy) pious one(s) ψ 16:10 (Kt pl.), 1 S 2:9 (Qr pl.) Pr 2:8, אִישׁ חֲסִידֶ֑ךָ men of thy pious one Dt 33:8 (Moses, v. Di; others, the man, thy godly one, i.e. Levi); pl. the pious, godly, those of the people who were faithful, devoted to God’s service, only in Psalter and chiefly, if not entirely, in late Psalms ψ 149:1, 5; his pious ones ψ 30:5; 31:24; 37:28; 85:9; 97:10; 116:15; 148:14; 149:9; thy pious ones ψ 52:11; 79:2; 89:20; 132:9 = 2 Ch 6:41, ψ 145:10; my pious ones ψ 50:5, her (Zion’s) pious ψ 132:16.—(In Maccab. age, συναγωγὴ Ἀσιδαίων denoted, technically, the party of the pious, who opposed the Hellenization of Judaea, v. 1 Macc 2:42; cf. 7:13 2 Macc 14:6 and CheOP 48, 56; so perhaps ψ 116:15; 149:1, 5, 9.)