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חֵפֶץ (H2656)

chêphets

khay'-fets

from חָפֵץ; pleasure; hence (abstractly) desire; concretely, a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind); acceptable, delight(-some), desire, things desired, matter, pleasant(-ure), purpose, willingly.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

חֵ֫פֶץ n.m. delight, pleasure
1 delight
2 desire, longing
3 the good pleasure, will, purpose, of Yahweh
4 that in which one takes delight, his business (late), or matter

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


38 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Job 22:3
    Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
  • Job 31:16
    If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
  • Psalms 1:2
    But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
  • Psalms 16:3
    But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
  • Psalms 107:30
    Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
  • Psalms 111:2
    The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
  • Proverbs 3:15
    She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
  • Proverbs 8:11
    For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
  • Proverbs 31:13
    She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.
  • Ecclesiastes 3:1
    To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: