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Gematria of Kindness

2 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “kindness” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 811 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.

Hebrew equivalents
2
Occurrences
811
Distinct values
2

The 2 Hebrew words rendered “kindness”

The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.

טוֹבṭôwb×564 in the TanakhH2896

good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well)

Standard 17 →Gadol 17Katan 17Siduri (ordinal) 17Atbash 430Perati 121Milui 844

First appearance ·Genesis 1:4בראשית א:דטוֹב

See all 300 occurrences of the spelling טוב →

חֵסֵדchêçêd×247 in the TanakhH2617

kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty

Standard 72 →Gadol 72Katan 18Siduri (ordinal) 27Atbash 168Perati 3,680Milui 972

First appearance ·Genesis 19:19בראשית יט:יטחַסְדְּךָ

See all 79 occurrences of the spelling חסד →

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What is the gematria of kindness?

The Tanakh renders “kindness” with 2 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: טוב = 17 and חסד = 72.

How do you say kindness in Hebrew?

The Tanakh uses 2 Hebrew words for “kindness”; the most frequent are טוב (ṭôwb), 564 times; חסד (chêçêd), 247 times. Every one is listed on this page.

The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.