Word Hesed in the Hebrew Bible

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.