Strong H2617H2617Bחֶ֫סֶד
shame
One of the 2 senses of Strong H2617
- Transliteration
- chêsêd
- Pronunciation
- kheh'-sed
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From H2616; kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opprobrium) {reproof} or (subjectively) beauty: - {favour} good deed ({-liness} {-ness}) {kindly} (loving-) {kindness} merciful ({kindness}) {mercy} {pity} {reproach} wicked thing.
Detailed definition
a reproach, shame
In the Bible
Strong H2617B appears in 2 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- reproach1
- thing1
First verses
- Leviticus 20:17And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
- Proverbs 14:34Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.