Hebrew · Strong's H2617

חֵסֵד

chêçêd · kheh'-sed · noun · “steadfast love, lovingkindness”

Respuestas

Jésed es el amor fiel de Dios: bondad leal y constante que guarda el pacto y no abandona. Una de las palabras más ricas del Antiguo Testamento para el amor de Dios.

Respuesta rápida traducida con ayuda de IA y en revisión. La explicación completa se muestra en inglés.

Chesed is famously hard to translate: lovingkindness, steadfast love, mercy, faithfulness. It describes loyal love within a relationship — love that keeps its commitments even when the other party fails.

It is the heartbeat of God’s character revealed to Moses: “abounding in steadfast love (chesed) and faithfulness.” The Psalms return again and again to the refrain that his chesed “endures forever.” It is covenant love you can stake your life on.

Strong's reference

Definition: kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty

KJV usage: favour, good deed(-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-) kindness, merciful (kindness), mercy, pity, reproach, wicked thing.

Reference gloss from Strong's Concordance (1890, public domain).

Versículos clave BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

Lamentations 3:22 “Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.” Psalms 136:1 “Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good. His loving devotion endures forever.” Exodus 34:6 “Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,”