חָסִיד, kind, God-fearing, submissive, pious, abstemious. Tem. 15ᵇ כל היכא דאמר מעשה בח׳ אחד וכ׳ wherever we read (in Talmudic writings), ‘It is reported of a pious man’, either R. Juda b. Baba it meant or &c. Sot. III, 4 ח׳ שוטה a foolish saint. Ab. V, 10 שלי … ח׳ he who says, Mine is thine and thine is thine, is a ḥasid. Ib. 11; a. v. fr.—Pl. חֲסִידִים. Ber. V, 1 ח׳ הראשונים the pious men of olden days; a. v. fr.