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Charity

Considered as a Christian grace, ought in our translation, in order to avoid mistake, to have been translated _love_. It is the love of God, and the love of our neighbour flowing from the love of God; This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
  • A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
  • concordance
  • STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Key facts

Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
G1654
Hebrew
בֶּן־חֶסֶד · Ben-Cheçed
Greek
ἐλεημοσύνη · eleēmosunē

Strong’s and original-language information

G1654

ἐλεημοσύνη · eleēmosunē

Glosses: charity

ἐλεημοσύνη, -ης, ἡ (ἐλεέω), [in LXX chiefly for חֶסֶד, צְדָקָה ; ] __1. mercy, pity.

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

H1136

בֶּן־חֶסֶד · Ben-Cheçed

Glosses: the son of Hesed.

Ben-Chesed, an Israelite

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H2618

חֶסֶד · Cheçed

Glosses: Hesed.

Chesed, an Israelite

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H3142

יוּשַׁב חֶסֶד · Yûwshab Cheçed

Glosses: Jushab-hesed.

Jushab-Chesed, an Israelite

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H6666

צְדָקָה · tsᵉdâqâh

Glosses: justice, moderately, right(-eous) (act, -ly, -ness).

rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity)

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Charity

(1 Cor. 13), the rendering in the Authorized Version of the word which properly denotes love, and is frequently so rendered (always so in the Revised Version). It is spoken of as the greatest of the three Christian graces (1 Cor. 12:31-13:13).

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897) · View data sources

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

CHARITY

considered as a Christian grace, ought in our translation, in order to avoid mistake, to have been translated _love_. It is the love of God, and the love of our neighbour flowing from the love of God; and is described with wonderful copiousness, felicity, and even grandeur, by St.

Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources

Concordance

All Scripture references10 references

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Topical Bible

Naves Topical

CHARITY

Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for CHARITY.

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Sources

Ancient Context3 items

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