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Strong's #2624 - חֲסִידָה
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1) stork
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2181) dxh (ההסד HhSD) AC: Bow CO: ? AB: Kindness: The bowing of the neck as a sign of respect and kindness to an equal. [from: xh]
V) dxh (ההסד HhSD) - Bow: To bow the head at the neck. KJV (3): (vf: Hitpael, Piel) mercy, shame - Strongs: H2616 (חָסַד)
Nm) dxh (ההסד HhSD) - Kindness: In the sense of bowing the neck to another as a sign of kindness. KJV (248): mercy, kindness, lovingkindness, goodness, kindly, merciful, favour, good, goodliness, pity, reproach, wicked - Strongs: H2617 (חֶסֶד)
bm) dixh (ההסיד HhSYD) - Kind: A kind action, also one who is kind. KJV (32): saint, holy, merciful, godly, good - Strongs: H2623 (חָסִיד)
bf1) edixh (ההסידה HhSYDH) - I. Stork:From its long and bowed neck. II. Plumage:The soft feathers of the storks neck. KJV (6): stork, feathers - Strongs: H2624 (חֲסִידָה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
חֲסִידָה f. the stork, prop. the pious (bird), so called from its love towards [“its parents and”] its young, of which the ancients made much mention (see Plin. H. N. x. 28. Ælian. Hist. Anim. iii. 23; x. 26); as, on the contrary, the Arabs call the female ostrich ظَليِمُ impious bird, on account of her neglect of her young; (see Job 39:13, seq.) Levit. 11:19 Deuteronomy 14:18 Psal. 104:17 Jeremiah 8:7; Zechariah 5:9 see Bochart, Hier. ii. 327, seq.- Job 39:13, חֲסִידָה is not to be taken as the name of the stork, but as the fem. adj. pious, yet with an allusion to the stork. The words are, “the wing of the ostrich exults, אִם אֶבְרָה חֲסִידָה וְנוֹצָה but (is her) wing and feather (also) pious?” i.e. but she is not (like the stork) pious or affectionate towards her young, but she treats them cruelly (verses -1416 ).
