Steadfast love (hesed)

Original word: חֶסֶד
Transliteration: hesed
Strong's: H2617

God's covenant-keeping, unfailing love and faithfulness; in the Old Testament it describes the LORD's loyalty to his people.

Concordance in this edition

Genesis 24:27 — He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”
Genesis 32:10 — I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
Genesis 47:29 — The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,
Exodus 34:6 — Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
2 Samuel 2:6 — Now may Yahweh show loving kindness and truth to you. I also will reward you for this kindness, because you have done this thing.
2 Samuel 15:20 — Whereas you came but yesterday, should I this day make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.”
1 Kings 3:6 — Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, according as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
Nehemiah 9:17 — and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.
Psalms 36:5 — Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
Psalms 40:10 — I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.
Psalms 40:11 — Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
Psalms 51:1 — Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
Psalms 69:16 — Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
Psalms 86:15 — But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
Psalms 88:11 — Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
Psalms 89:1 — I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
Psalms 89:2 — I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.”
Psalms 89:24 — But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.
Psalms 89:33 — But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
Psalms 89:49 — Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
Psalms 92:2 — to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night,
Psalms 98:3 — He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Psalms 100:5 — For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.
Psalms 103:8 — Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
Psalms 108:4 — For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
Psalms 115:1 — Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.
Psalms 117:2 — For his loving kindness is great toward us. Yahweh’s faithfulness endures forever. Praise Yah!
Psalms 138:2 — I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.
Psalms 145:8 — Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
Proverbs 16:6 — By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.
Proverbs 20:28 — Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is sustained by love.
Isaiah 54:8 — In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting loving kindness will I have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.
Isaiah 54:10 — For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
Isaiah 63:7 — I will make mention of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh and the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
Jeremiah 16:5 — For thus says Yahweh, Don’t enter into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, says Yahweh, even loving kindness and tender mercies.
Lamentations 3:22 — It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.
Lamentations 3:32 — For though he cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
Hosea 2:4 — Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness;
Hosea 2:19 — I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.
Joel 2:13 — Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
Jonah 4:2 — He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
Micah 7:20 — You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
Genesis 19:16 — But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.
Genesis 19:19 — See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
Genesis 20:13 — When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
Genesis 24:49 — Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.”
Genesis 39:21 — But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
Genesis 43:14 — May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”
Exodus 15:13 — “You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
Exodus 20:6 — and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Exodus 33:19 — He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”
Exodus 34:7 — keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”
Leviticus 26:40 — “‘If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,
Numbers 5:12 — “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him,
Numbers 14:18 — ‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’
Numbers 14:19 — Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and according as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”
Numbers 14:33 — Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.
Deuteronomy 4:31 — For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
Deuteronomy 5:10 — and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Deuteronomy 7:9 — Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

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