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.