'Kind' in the Bible

And God saith, 'Let the earth yield tender grass, herb sowing seed, fruit-tree (whose seed is in itself) making fruit after its kind, on the earth:' and it is so.

And the earth bringeth forth tender grass, herb sowing seed after its kind, and tree making fruit (whose seed is in itself) after its kind; and God seeth that it is good;

And God prepareth the great monsters, and every living creature that is creeping, which the waters have teemed with, after their kind, and every fowl with wing, after its kind, and God seeth that it is good.

And God saith, 'Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind:' and it is so.

And God maketh the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, and God seeth that it is good.

Of the fowl after its kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort they come in unto thee, to keep alive.

they, and every living creature after its kind, and every beast after its kind, and every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird -- every wing.

I have been unworthy of all the kind acts, and of all the truth which Thou hast done with thy servant -- for, with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.

and make their lives bitter in hard service, in clay, and in brick, and in every kind of service in the field; all their service in which they have served is with rigour.

and the vulture, and the kite after its kind,

every raven after its kind,

and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind,

and the stork, the heron after its kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

these of them ye do eat: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the beetle after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind;

And this is to you the unclean among the teeming things which are teeming on the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after its kind,

and the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after its kind,

and every raven after its kind;

and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind;

and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the lapwing, and the bat;

With the kind Thou shewest Thyself kind, With the perfect man Thou shewest Thyself perfect,

And his servants say unto him, 'Lo, we pray thee, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel -- that they are kind kings; let us put, we pray thee, sackcloth on our loins, and ropes on our heads, and we go out unto the king of Israel; it may be he doth keep thee alive.'

O Jehovah God, turn not back the face of Thine anointed, be mindful of the kind acts of David Thy servant.'

And the rest of the matters of Hezekiah, and his kind acts, lo, they are written in the vision of Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet, on the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

And the rest of the matters of Josiah, and his kind acts, according as it is written in the law of Jehovah,

Be mindful of me, O my God, for this, and do not blot out my kind acts that I have done, for the house of my God, and for its charges.

With the kind Thou showest Thyself kind, With a perfect man showest Thyself perfect.

An instruction, by Ethan the Ezrahite. Of the kind acts of Jehovah, to the age I sing, To all generations I make known Thy faithfulness with my mouth,

Our fathers in Egypt, Have not considered wisely Thy wonders, They have not remembered The abundance of Thy kind acts, And provoke by the sea, at the sea of Suph.

Who is wise, and observeth these? They understand the kind acts of Jehovah!

My kind one, and my bulwark, My tower, and my deliverer, My shield, and in whom I have trusted, Who is subduing my people under me!

Our garners are full, bringing out from kind to kind, Our flocks are bringing forth thousands, Ten thousands in our out-places,

Righteous is Jehovah in all His ways, And kind in all His works.

A kind man is rewarding his own soul, And the fierce is troubling his own flesh.

Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David -- that are stedfast.

The kind acts of Jehovah I make mention of, The praises of Jehovah, According to all that Jehovah hath done for us, And the abundance of the goodness to the house of Israel, That He hath done for them, According to His mercies, And according to the abundance of His kind acts.

Go, and thou hast proclaimed these words toward the north, and hast said, Turn back, O backsliding Israel, An affirmation of Jehovah! I cause not Mine anger to fall upon you, For I am kind, an affirmation of Jehovah, I watch not to the age.

And it hath come to pass, fishers do stand by it, from En-Gedi even unto En-Eglaim; a spreading place of nets they are; according to their own kind is their fish, as the fish of the great sea, very many.

And by the stream there cometh up on its edge, on this side and on that side, every kind of fruit-tree whose leaf fadeth not, and not consumed is its fruit, according to its months it yieldeth first-fruits, because its waters from the sanctuary are coming forth; and its fruits hath been for food, and its leaf for medicine.

As to these four lads, God hath given to them knowledge and understanding in every kind of literature, and wisdom; and Daniel hath given instruction about every kind of vision and dreams.

Perished hath the kind out of the land, And upright among men -- there are none, All of them for blood lie in wait, Each his brother they hunt with a net.

Happy the kind -- because they shall find kindness.

and the men wondered, saying, 'What kind -- is this, that even the wind and the sea do obey him?'

'Again, the reign of the heavens is like to a net that was cast into the sea, and did gather together of every kind,

And having taken him aside, Peter began to rebuke him, saying, 'Be kind to thyself, sir; this shall not be to thee;'

and this kind doth not go forth except in prayer and fasting.'

He saith to him, 'What kind?' And Jesus said, 'Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness,

And he said to them, 'This kind is able to come forth with nothing except with prayer and fasting.'

and she, having seen, was troubled at his word, and was reasoning of what kind this salutation may be.

'But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;

And the Pharisee who did call him, having seen, spake within himself, saying, 'This one, if he were a prophet, would have known who and of what kind is the woman who doth touch him, that she is a sinner.'

because Thou wilt not leave my soul to hades, nor wilt Thou give Thy Kind One to see corruption;

And in Joppa there was a certain female disciple, by name Tabitha, (which interpreted, is called Dorcas,) this woman was full of good works and kind acts that she was doing;

pious, and fearing God with all his house, doing also many kind acts to the people, and beseeching God always,

and he having looked earnestly on him, and becoming afraid, said, 'What is it, Lord?' And he said to him, 'Thy prayers and thy kind acts came up for a memorial before God,

and he said, Cornelius, thy prayer was heard, and thy kind acts were remembered before God;

wherefore also in another place he saith, Thou shalt not give Thy kind One to see corruption,

'And after many years I came, about to do kind acts to my nation, and offerings,

of each the work shall become manifest, for the day shall declare it, because in fire it is revealed, and the work of each, what kind it is, the fire shall prove;

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

and as a recompense of the same kind, (as to children I say it,) be ye enlarged -- also ye!

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

I wish, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up kind hands, apart from anger and reasoning;

but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

wherefore it did behove him in all things to be made like to the brethren, that he might become a kind and stedfast chief-priest in the things with God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people,

For such a chief priest did become us -- kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens,

for he did view himself, and hath gone away, and immediately he did forget of what kind he was;

All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons doth it behove you to be in holy behaviours and pious acts?

and to some be kind, judging thoroughly,

who may not fear Thee, O Lord, and glorify Thy name? because Thou alone art kind, because all the nations shall come and bow before Thee, because Thy righteous acts were manifested.'