KINDNESS

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kind'-nes (checedh; chrestotes): "Kindness" in the Old Testament is (with one exception) the translation of checedh, "kindness," "favor," "mercy," etc., used chiefly of man but also of God ( Ge 20:13 ; 40:14 ; 1Sa 15:6 ; 20:14 , 15 ; 2Sa 9:3 ; Ne 9:17 ; Ps 141:5 ; Isa 54:8 , 10 , etc.); Tobh, "good," is once so translated ( 2Sa 2:6 ). In the New Testament chrestotes, "usefulness," "beneficence," is rendered "kindness" 4 t in the King James Version ( 2Co 6:6 ; Eph 2:7 ; Col 3:12 ; Tit 3:4 , and in Ga 5:22 the Revised Version (British and American)); see GENTLENESS ; GOODNESS . Philanthropia, "love of mankind," is translated "kindness" Ac 28:2 ), and philadelphia, "love of the brotherhood" ( 2Pe 1:7 , the English Revised Version "love of the brethren," the American Revised Version margin "Gr, love of the brethren"). For "kindness" ( Ps 31:21 ) the Revised Version (British and American) has "lovingkindness," and the American Standard Revised Version in other places where the reference is to God; for "shew," "shewed kindness" ( Jos 2:12 ) "deal," "dealt kindly"; for "The desire of man is his kindness" ( Pr 19:22 ) the American Standard Revised Version has "That which maketh a man to be desired is his kindness," the English Revised Version "The desire of man is (the measure of) his kindness," like the American Standard Revised Version in m; for "merciful kindness" ( Ps 117:2 ) the American Standard Revised Version has "lovingkindness," the English Revised Version "mercy "; both have "lovingkindness" ( Ps 119:76 ); for "of great kindness" ( Ne 9:17 ; Joe 2:13 ; Jon 4:2 ) the American Standard Revised Version has "abundant in lovingkindness," the English Revised Version "plenteous in mercy"; the Revised Version (British and American) has "kindness" for "mercy" ( Ge 39:21 ); for "pity" ( Job 6:14 ); for "goodness" ( Pr 20:6 ); "favor and kindness" the American Standard Revised Version, for "grace and favor" ( Es 2:17 ). See LOVINGKINDNESS ; MERCY .