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Genesis 19:19

הִנֵּה נָא מָצָא עַבְדְּךָ חֵן בְּ עֵינֶיךָ וַ תַּגְדֵּל חַסְדְּךָ אֲשֶׁר עָשִׂיתָ עִמָּדִי לְ הַחֲיֹות אֶת נַפְשִׁי וְ אָנֹכִי לֹא אוּכַל לְ הִמָּלֵט הָ הָרָה פֶּן תִּדְבָּקַנִי הָ רָעָה וָ מַתִּי
Behold, now, your slave has found a favored-one in your eyes, and you are causing to grow up your kind-one678 which you have made by-me,679 to cause to live my breath, and myself I am not able to escape the Mountain-ward, lest the Ruined-one is cleaving-to me,680 and I have died.
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Strong’s #2617, chesed. Kind-one. Interpreted in the abstract “kindness” or “lovingkindness”. Sometimes it is found with a definite article,

And he has become because you all are hearing אֶת-the Judgements of These ones, and have guarded, and have made אֶת-them, and Yahweh your elohe has guarded to-yourself אֶת-the Cut-out-one and אֶת-the Kind-one whom he has sevened to your fathers.” Deut. 7:12 literal