Sentences with phrase «meaning lovingkindness»
It is derived from the noun hesed, meaning lovingkindness, mercy, or grace.
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God proudly punished children of transgressors: Numbers 14:18 18The LORD is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations.
For Jews, too, salvation is an act of God's hesed, a word that the KJV obscurely translates «lovingkindness,» but which really means an unconditional act of love, uncompelled and unmerited.
Amos's «righteousness,» Hosea's hesed, or «lovingkindness,» and Isaiah's «holiness» represent three important developments of the meaning of the divine kingship for the life of the community.