The Word Hesed In The Hebrew Bible

Download or read book The Word "Hesed" in the Hebrew Bible written by Gordon R. Clark and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.