חָסִיד

1. kind:
\ \ a. of man תתחסד ׳עם ח with the kind thou shewest thyself kind 2 Sam 22,26 = Sl 18,26.
\ \ b. of wing of ostrich אִם אֶבְרָה חֲסִידָה Job 39,13 is it a kindly pinion? possibly with play on חֲסִידָה feminine noun strok (is the ostrich kind like the stork?).
\ \ c. of God, only Jer 3,12; Sl 145,17.

2. pious, godly, either as exhibition of 'duteous love' toward God (Che^{OP 378}), or (in view of rarity of such passages as Hos 6,4; Hos 6,6; Jer 2,2, and their possible ambiguity) because kindness, as prominent in the godly, comes to imply other attributes, and to be a designation of the godly character, piety:
\ \ a. as adjective — גּוֺי לא חסיד a nation, not pious, = ungodly Sl 43,1.
\ \ b. elsewhere as substantive: singular, a pious man, the godly Sl 4,4; Sl 12,2; Sl 32,6; Sl 86,2, || יָשָׁר Mik 7,2 (thy) pious one
\ \ \ (s) Sl 16,10 (Kt plural), 1 Sam 2,9 (Qr plural) Ord 2,8, אִישׁ חֲסִידֶ֑ךָ men of thy pious one 5 Mos 33,8 (Moses, see Di; others, the man, thy godly one, i.e. Levi); plural the pious, godly, those of the people who were faithful, devoted to God's service, only in Psalter and chiefly, if not entirely, in late Psalms Sl 149,1; Sl 149,5 his pious ones Sl 30,5; Sl 31,24; Sl 37,28; Sl 85,9; Sl 97,10; Sl 116,15; Sl 148,14; Sl 149,9 thy pious ones Sl 52,11; Sl 79,2; Sl 132,9 = 2 Kron 6,41; Sl 145,10 my pious ones Sl 50,5, her (Zion's) pious Sl 132,16. — (In Maccabean age, συναγωγὴ Ἀσιδαίων denoted, technically, the party of the pious, who opposed the Hellenization of the Judaea, see 1 Macc 2:42; 7:13; 2 Macc 14:6 and Che^{OP 48, 56}; so perhaps Sl 116,15; Sl 149,1; Sl 149,5; Sl 149,9.)