chasid · faithful one, godly

What it means

chasid (חָסִיד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “faithful one, godly”.

Faithful one: one who lives out loyal love toward God; also kind.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Someone who lives out loyal love toward God and others.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• faithful ones ×18
• faithful ×14

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×25
• Proverbs×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Micah×1

• Deuteronomy 33:8

  And of Levi he said, “Your Thummim and your Urim belong to your faithful man, whom you tested at Massah, with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah;

• 1 Samuel 2:9

  The feet of his faithful ones he guards, but the wicked are silenced in darkness; for not by strength does a man prevail.

• 2 Samuel 22:26

  With the faithful you show yourself faithful; with the blameless mighty man you show yourself blameless;

• 2 Chronicles 6:41

  And now, arise, YHWH Elohim, to your rest, you and the ark of your strength. Let your priests, YHWH Elohim, be clothed with salvation, and let your faithful ones rejoice in what is good.

• Psalms 4:3

  Know that YHWH has singled out the faithful one for himself; YHWH hears when I call to him.

• Psalms 12:1

  For the director. On the eighth. A psalm of David. Save, YHWH, for the faithful one is gone; for the trustworthy have vanished from among human beings.

• Psalms 16:10

  For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol; you will not let your faithful one see the pit.

• Psalms 18:25

  With the faithful you show yourself faithful; with the blameless man you show yourself blameless;

• Psalms 30:4

  Sing psalms to YHWH, you his faithful ones, and give thanks to the remembrance of his holiness.

• Psalms 31:23

  Love YHWH, all his faithful ones! The trustworthy YHWH guards, and he repays in full the one who acts with pride.

• Psalms 32:6

  For this every faithful one will pray to you in the time of finding; surely in the flood of many waters, to him they will not reach.

• Psalms 37:28

  For YHWH loves justice and will not abandon his faithful ones; forever they are kept, but the offspring of the wicked is cut off.

• Psalms 43:1

  Judge me, Elohim, and contend for my case against a nation not faithful; from the man of deceit and injustice bring me to safety.

• Psalms 50:5

  “Gather to me my faithful ones, those who made my covenant by sacrifice.”

• Psalms 52:9

  I will give you thanks forever, for you have acted, and I will wait for your name, for it is good, before your faithful ones.

• Psalms 79:2

  They have given the corpses of your servants as food to the birds of the sky, the flesh of your faithful ones to the animals of the earth.

• Psalms 85:8

  I will hear what El, YHWH, will speak; for he will speak peace to his people and to his faithful ones; but let them not return to folly.

• Psalms 86:2

  Guard my soul, for I am faithful; you, my Elohim, save your servant who trusts in you.

• Psalms 89:19

  Then you spoke in a vision to your faithful ones, and said, “I have set help upon a mighty man; I have exalted one chosen from the people.

• Psalms 97:10

  You who love YHWH, hate evil; he guards the souls of his faithful ones; from the hand of the wicked he delivers them.

• Psalms 116:15

  Precious in the eyes of YHWH is the death of his faithful ones.

• Psalms 132:9

  Let your priests be clothed with righteousness, and let your faithful ones shout for joy.

• Psalms 132:16

  And its priests I will clothe with salvation, and its faithful ones will shout aloud for joy.

• Psalms 145:10

  All your works will give you thanks, YHWH, and your faithful ones will bless you.

• Psalms 145:17

  Righteous is YHWH in all his ways, and faithful in all his works.

• Psalms 148:14

  And he has raised up a horn for his people, praise for all his faithful ones, for the sons of Israel, the people near to him. Praise Yah.

• Psalms 149:1

  Praise Yah. Sing to YHWH a new song, his praise in the assembly of the faithful.

• Psalms 149:5

  Let the faithful exult in glory; let them shout for joy on their beds.

• Psalms 149:9

  to execute on them the written judgment. This is majesty for all his faithful ones. Praise Yah.

• Proverbs 2:8

  to guard the paths of justice; and the way of his faithful ones he keeps.

• Jeremiah 3:12

  Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, apostate Israel, declares YHWH; I will not make my face fall on you, for I am faithful, declares YHWH; I will not keep it forever.

• Micah 7:2

  The faithful one has perished from the earth, and there is no upright one among human beings; all of them lie in wait for blood; each hunts his brother with a net.