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Pious
Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words
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Châsı̂yd (חָסִיד, Strong's #2623), “one who is pious, godly.” Psalms contains 25 of the 32 appearances of this word.
Basically, hasid means one who practices hesed (“loving-kindness”), so it is to be translated the “pious” or “godly one.” The word’s first biblical occurrence is in Deut. 33:8 where it represents a human being: “Give to Levi thy Thummim, and thy Urim to thy godly one” (RSV). The word appears in Ps. 32:6: “For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found.…” The word is applied to God in Ps. 145:17: “The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.”
This noun is derived from the noun châsı̂yd.
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Pious'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/vot/p/pious.html. 1940.
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Pious'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/vot/p/pious.html. 1940.
