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==Other uses==
In the aggregate, "Ḥasīd" may also refer to members of any of the following Jewish movements:

* the [[Hasideans]] of the Maccabean period, around the 2nd century BCE
* the New Testament twice refers to Jesus of Nazareth as the Davidic ḥasīd foretold in {{bibleverse|Psalm|16:10|HE}} (Book of Acts 2:27; 13:35 ὅσιος, quoting Ps 15:10 Greek Septuagint translation; "ḥasīd" is here used in the Hebrew NT translations of Delitzsch, Salkinson-Ginsburg, “The Way,” etc., and is paralleled by the Syriac Peshitta). Followers of this royal ḥasīd were commanded to practice ḥesed among themselves (Gospel of Luke 10:37, using Septuagintal ''poiein eleos meta'' from Hebrew ''asah ḥesed ʿim''). 
* the [[Ashkenazi Hasidim]], an ascetic German mystical-ethical movement of the 12th and 13th centuries
* [[Hasidic Judaism]] ([[Yiddish]]: "Chassidische bavegung"), a movement which began in [[Ukraine]] in the 18th century