Hesed (Heb. Hesed, “mercy”, “grace”). Father of one of the governors in charge of Solomon’s provisions (1Ki 4:10).
Source: Evangelical Bible Dictionary
(Mercy). Father of an officer of King Solomon who ruled in Arubot (1 Kings 4:10).
Source: Christian Bible Dictionary
(Yes Kabbalah). Key term of the Hebrew Bible (where it appears more than a hundred times) and of all Israelite thought. It implies affective closeness and has two fundamental meanings. (1) Mercy*, that is, gratuitous benevolence, along the lines of forgiveness. (2) Loyalty, that is, firmness in fulfilling commitments. Both senses are often involved and overlap, although one or the other may predominate. It is usually a fundamental attribute of God, both in an absolute sense or in unity with Emet or emuna (from the same root as amen) that is more linked to the truth taken as firmness; in this way it appears many times, thus highlighting God’s mercy and truth (cf. Gn 24,27; Ex 34,6). Kabbalistic tradition conceives the Hesecl as the fourth of the ten sefirot* of the divine being. It is also called Gedtdlah, greatness, to highlight the immensity of God’s grace and love, which cannot be measured or understood by human models. That means that God is great in terms of unfathomable mercy. Well, the same as in the other sefirot, the Hesed, which comes after the Hokhmah and the Binah (attributes of knowledge), is dialectically determined and completed by the Din* or divine judgment.
Cf. F. ASENSIO, Misericordia et veritas. The divine Hesed and Emet. Its religious-social influence in the history of Israel, Gregorian Analecta 49, Rome 1949.
PIKAZA, Javier, Dictionary of the Bible. History and Word, Divine Word, Navarra 2007
Source: Dictionary of Bible History and Word
(short form of Hasadiah, meaning: “Jah’s Loving-Kindness; Jah Is Loving-Kindness”).
Israelite whose son was one of the twelve commissioners assigned by Solomon to provide food for the king and his household one month a year. (1Ki 4:7, 10)
Source: Dictionary of the Bible