H2623. chasid
חָסִיד adjective masculine kind, pious (so, as denoting active practice of חֶסֶד, kindness, Thes MV De and most, compare מָּקִיד קָצִיר, etc.; > Hup on [Psa 4:4] RVm who explained as passive reception of ׳יs חֶסֶד, compare אָסִיר שָֹׂכֹיר, etc.; its use as attribute of God [Jer 3:12]; [Psa 145:17], and the context [12:1]; [Micah 7:2] etc., favour active sense) — ׳ח [Psa 4:4] 9t.; חֲסִידֶ֑ךָ [Deut 33:8]; [Psa 89:20]; חֲסִידְי֯ךָ [16:10]; plural חֲסִידִים [149:1]; [149:5]; suffix חֲסִידָ֑י [50:5]; חֲסִידָו֯ [1Sam 2:9] [15]t. suffixes; —
1 kind:
a. of man ח ׳עם תתחסד with the kind thou shewest thyself kind [2Sam 22:26] = [Psa 18:26].
b. of wing of ostrich חֲסִידָה אֶבְרָה אִם [Job 39:13] is it a kindly pinion? possibly with play on חֲסִידָה feminine noun strok (is the ostrich kind like the stork?).
c. of God, only [Jer 3:12]; [Psa 145:17].
2 pious, godly, either as exhibition of 'duteous love' toward God (CheOP 378), or (in view of rarity of such passages as [Hosea 6:4], [6]; [Jer 2:2], and their possible ambiguity) because kindness, as prominent in the godly, comes to imply other attributes, and to be a designation of the godly character, piety:
a. as adjective — חסיד לא גּוֺי a nation, not pious, = ungodly [Psa 43:1].
b. elsewhere as substantive: singular, a pious man, the godly [Psa 4:4]; [12:2]; [32:6]; [86:2], || יָשָׁר [Micah 7:2]; (thy) pious one(s) [Psa 16:10] (Kt plural), [1Sam 2:9] (Qr plural) [Prov 2:8], חֲסִידֶ֑ךָ אִישׁ men of thy pious one [Deut 33:8] (Moses, see Di; others, the man, thy godly one, i.e. Levi); plural the pious, godly, those of the people who were faithful, devoted to God's service, only in Psalter and chiefly, if not entirely, in late Psalms [Psa 149:1]; [149:5]; his pious ones [30:5]; [31:24]; [37:28]; [85:9]; [97:10]; [116:15]; [148:14]; [149:9]; thy pious ones Psalm 52:11; [79:2]; [132:9] [2Chr 6:41]; [Psa 145:10]; my pious ones [50:5], her (Zion's) pious [132:16]. — (In Maccabean age, συναγωγὴ Ἀσιδαίων denoted, technically, the party of the pious, who opposed the Hellenization of the Judaea, see 1Macc 2:42; 7:13; 2 Macc 14:6 and CheOP 48, 56; so perhaps [116:15]; [149:1]; [149:5]; [149:9].)