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The Word Hesed in the Hebrew Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

This impressive semantic study, with a useful glossary of special and technical terms, develops an original methodology, bringing new insights into the meaning of a much-discussed word. Working with an immense amount of data, obtained by examining every occurrence in the Hebrew Bible of 35 field elements, the author achieves a new degree of semantic refinement based on meticulous quantitative...

distinguished from one another in terms of that word’s syntagmatic relations with other words occurring in the expression, that is, in the lexical chain. On the other hand, different words that have related meanings stand in a paradigmatic relationship with each other such that, in an expression containing one of the words, another word selected from the paradigm may be substituted, thus presenting the possibility of making a lexical choice. Here, then, are the two dimensions of linguistic analysis
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