Lexical Definition

‎חָסִיד‎ châçîyd (khaw-seed') pious ^H:A
from ‎חָסַד‎

godly (man), good, holy (one), merciful, saint, (un-) godly.

• properly, kind, i.e. (religiously) pious (a saint)

1) faithful, kind, godly, holy one, saint, pious
1a) kind
1b) pious, godly
1c) faithful ones (subst)

See Greek: ἐλεέω · εὐλαβέομαι · εὐλαβής · εὐσεβής · ὅσιος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎חָסִיד‎ adjective masculine kind, pious (so, as denoting active practice of ‎חֶסֶד‎, kindness, Thes MV De and most, compare ‎קָצִיר‎, ‎פָּקִיד‎ etc.; > Hup on Ps 4:4* RVm who explained as passive reception of ‎׳‎‎י‎'s ‎חֶסֶד‎, compare ‎שָֹׂכֹיר‎, ‎אָסִיר‎ etc.; its use as attribute of God Jer 3:12; Ps 145:17, and the context Ps 12:1*; Mic 7:2 etc., favour active sense) — ‎׳‎‎ח‎ Ps 4:4* + 9 t.; ‎חֲסִידֶ֑ךָ‎ Deut 33:8; Ps 89:20* ‎חֲסִידְי֯ךָ‎ Ps 16:10 plural ‎חֲסִידִים‎ Ps 149:1; Ps 149:5 suffix ‎חֲסִידָ֑י‎ Ps 50:5 ‎חֲסִידָו֯‎ 1Sam 2:9 + 15 t. suffixes; —

1. kind:
a. of man ‎תתחסד‎ ‎׳‎‎עם ח‎ with the kind thou shewest thyself kind 2Sam 22:26 = Ps 18:26*.
b. of wing of ostrich ‎אִם אֶבְרָה חֲסִידָה‎ Job 39:13 is it a kindly pinion? possibly with play on ‎חֲסִידָה‎ feminine noun strok (is the ostrich kind like the stork?).
c. of God, only Jer 3:12; Ps 145:17.

2. pious, godly, either as exhibition of 'duteous love' toward God (Che^{OP 378}), or (in view of rarity of such passages as Hos 6:4; Hos 6:6; Jer 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:
a. as adjective — ‎גּוֺי לא חסיד‎ a nation, not pious, = ungodly Ps 43:1.
b. elsewhere as substantive: singular, a pious man, the godly Ps 4:4*; Ps 12:2*; Ps 32:6; Ps 86:2, || ‎יָשָׁר‎ Mic 7:2 (thy) pious one
(s) Ps 16:10 (Kt plural), 1Sam 2:9 (Qr plural) Prov 2:8, ‎אִישׁ חֲסִידֶ֑ךָ‎ men of thy pious one Deut 33:8 (Moses, see Di; others, the man, thy godly one, i.e. Levi); plural 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 Ps 149:1; Ps 149:5 his pious ones Ps 30:5*; Ps 31:24*; Ps 37:28; Ps 85:9*; Ps 97:10; Ps 116:15; Ps 148:14; Ps 149:9 thy pious ones Ps 52:11*; Ps 79:2; Ps 132:9 = 2Chr 6:41; Ps 145:10 my pious ones Ps 50:5, her (Zion's) pious Ps 132:16. — (In Maccabean age, συναγωγὴ Ἀσιδαίων denoted, technically, the party of the pious, who opposed the Hellenization of the Judaea, see 1 Macc 2:42; 7:13; 2 Macc 14:6 and Che^{OP 48, 56}; so perhaps Ps 116:15; Ps 149:1; Ps 149:5; Ps 149:9.)

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