Word Hesed in the Hebrew Bible

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"This impressive semantic study, with a useful glossary of special and technical terms, develops an original methodology, bringing new insights into the meaning of a much-discussed word. Working with an immense amount of data, obtained by examining every occurrence in the Hebrew Bible of 35 field elements, the author achieves a new degree of semantic refinement based on meticulous quantitative analysis of distribution, collocations, parallels and syntagms. Sense-relations are formulated between hesed and other related terms. This study provides much material for a better understanding of this crucial term for Hebrew thought, and also makes an important theoretical contribution to Hebrew lexicography."--Bloomsbury Publishing This impressive semantic study, with a useful glossary of special and technical terms, develops an original methodology, bringing new insights into the meaning of a much-discussed word. Working with an immense amount of data, obtained by examining every occurrence in the Hebrew Bible of 35 field elements, the author achieves a new degree of semantic refinement based on meticulous quantitative analysis of distribution, collocations, parallels and syntagms. Sense-relations are formulated between hesed and other related terms. This study provides much material for a better understanding of this crucial term for Hebrew thought, and also makes an important theoretical contribution to Hebrew lexicography

subjects: Bible,  Criticism, interpretation,  Etymology,  Hebrew language,  Ḥesed (The Hebrew word),  Substantiv,  Hesed (woord),  Hébreu (langue) biblique,  Ḥēsēd,  Hèsèd (Le mot hébraïque),  Altes Testament,  Hebräisch,  Oude Testament,  Vocabulaire,  OHesed (The Hebrew word),  Theology,  Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., o. t.,  Hesed (the hebrew word),  Language and languages, etymology,  ÌÞesed (The Hebrew word)