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Klappentext 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 analysis of distribution! collocations! parallels and syntagms. Sense-relations are formulated between hesed and other related terms. This study provides much material for a better understanding of this crucial term for Hebrew thought! and also makes an important theoretical contribution to Hebrew lexicography. Zusammenfassung 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 analysis of distribution! collocations! parallels and syntagms. Sense-relations are formulated between hesed and other related terms. This study provides much material for a better understanding of this crucial term for Hebrew thought! and also makes an important theoretical contribution to Hebrew lexicography.
