Strong's #2616: chacad (pronounced khaw-sad')

a primitive root; properly, perhaps to bow (the neck only (compare 2603) in courtesy to an equal), i.e. to be kind; also (by euphem. (compare l288), but rarely) to reprove:--shew self merciful, put to shame.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

châsad

1) to be good, be kind

2a) (Hithpael) to show kindness to oneself

2) to be reproached, be ashamed

1a) (Piel) to be put to shame, be reproached

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

 

2 Samuel 22:26: "With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt show thyself upright."
Psalms 18:25: "With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt show thyself upright;"
Proverbs 25:10: "Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away."