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Lexicon :: Strong's H2654 - ḥāp̄ēṣ

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חָפֵץ
Transliteration
ḥāp̄ēṣ
Pronunciation
khaw-fates'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 712,713

Strong’s Definitions

חָפֵץ châphêts, khaw-fates'; a primitive root; properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire:—× any at all, (have, take) delight, desire, favour, like, move, be (well) pleased, have pleasure, will, would.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 75x

The KJV translates Strong's H2654 in the following manner: delight (39x), please (14x), desire (9x), will (3x), pleasure (3x), favour (2x), like (2x), moveth (1x), would (1x), at all (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 75x
The KJV translates Strong's H2654 in the following manner: delight (39x), please (14x), desire (9x), will (3x), pleasure (3x), favour (2x), like (2x), moveth (1x), would (1x), at all (1x).
  1. to delight in, take pleasure in, desire, be pleased with

    1. (Qal)

      1. of men

        1. to take pleasure in, delight in

        2. to delight, desire, be pleased to do

      2. of God

        1. to delight in, have pleasure in

        2. to be pleased to do

  2. to move, bend down

    1. (Qal) to bend down

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָפֵץ châphêts, khaw-fates'; a primitive root; properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire:—× any at all, (have, take) delight, desire, favour, like, move, be (well) pleased, have pleasure, will, would.
STRONGS H2654: Abbreviations
חָפֵץ verb delight in (compare Arabic حَغِظَ be mindful of, attentive to, keep, protect, Aramaic Jpo whence jycpo eager, zealous, Arabic حَغِيظَةً anger (excitement), احْغَظَ enrage (Aramaic and Arabic of excited attention, Hebrew of delighted attention), DlPr 168ZMG 1886, 742; Late Hebrew חֵפֶץ weakened to thing, see DeEc. Glossary, Phoenician in proper name חפצבעל); —
Qal Perfect ח׳ Genesis 34:19 + 28 times; feminine הָפֵ֑צָה Isaiah 66:3?; 2nd person masculine חָפַצְתָּ Deuteronomy 21:14 + 4 times; חָפָ֫צְנוּ Job 21:14, etc., + 14 times Perfect; Imperfect יַחְפֹּץ Deuteronomy 25:7 + 7 times; יֶחְפָּ֑ץ Psalm 37:23; Psalm 147:10; plural יַחְפְּצוּ Isaiah 13:17; Jeremiah 6:10; יֶחְפָּ֑צוּ Psalm 68:31; יֶחְפָּצוּ֑ן Isaiah 58:2 (twice in verse) etc. + 9 times Imperfect; Infinitive absolute חָפֹץ Ezekiel 18:23; on Participle חָפֵץ=adjective verb., see below; —
1. of men:
a. take pleasure in, delight in, with בְּ, a woman Genesis 34:19 (J), Deuteronomy 21:14; Esther 2:14; a man 1 Samuel 18:22; 1 Samuel 19:1; 2 Samuel 20:11; in matters and things 2 Samuel 24:3; Isaiah 13:17; Isaiah 66:3; Jeremiah 6:10; Psalm 109:17; Psalm 112:1; Psalm 119:35; Proverbs 18:2; Esther 6:6, 7, 9 (twice in verse); Esther 6:11; with accusative Psalm 68:31; Isaiah 58:2; Ecclesiastes 8:3; implicit object Psalm 73:25.
b. delight, desire, be pleased to do a thing, would do it Deuteronomy 25:7, 8; 1 Kings 9:1; Esther 6:6; Ruth 3:13; Psalm 40:9; Job 9:3; Job 13:3; Job 21:14; Job 33:32; Isaiah 58:2; Jeremiah 42:22.
c. absolute שֶׁתֶּחְפָּ֑ץ עַד until it please (of love) Songs 2:7; Songs 3:5; Songs 8:4.
2. of God:
a. delight in, have pleasure in, with בְּ, persons Numbers 14:8 (J), 2 Samuel 15:26; 2 Samuel 22:20Psalm 18:20, 1 Kings 10:9 2 Chronicles 9:8; Psalm 22:9; Psalm 41:12; Isaiah 62:4; not in the strength of a horse Psalm 147:10; in doing evil Malachi 2:17; in the death of the sinner Ezekiel 18:32; Ezekiel 33:11; but in mercy, justice, and righteousness Jeremiah 9:23; בחר באשׁר (לא) חפצתי Isaiah 56:4; Isaiah 65:12; Isaiah 66:4; not with (accusative) the blood of bullocks Isaiah 1:11; זבח(ים); Psalm 40:7; Psalm 51:18, Psalm 51:21, or the death of the sinner Ezekiel 18:23 (twice in verse); but with חסד Hosea 6:6; Micah 7:18, אמת Psalm 51:8; with the way of a man Psalm 37:23; כל אשׁר חפץ Psalm 115:3; Psalm 135:6; Proverbs 21:1; אשׁר חפץ Isaiah 55:11; Jonah 1:14.
b. pleased to do a thing with infinitive Judges 13:23; 1 Samuel 2:25; Isaiah 53:10.
c. with imperfect subject (Ges§ 142 (3) c) חָפֵץ יגדיל תּורה י׳ Yahweh was pleased to magnify teaching Isaiah 42:21. — On Job 40:17 see חָפַץ.

† [חָפַץ] verb bend down (Arabic خَغَضَ lower, depress, as wings Qor 15:88) — only
Qal Imperfect כְמוֺאֶֿרֶז זְנָבוֺ יַחְפֹּץ Job 40:17; he bendeth down (extendeth down stiffly) his tail like a cedar, see Wetzst in DeJob 526 HiHiob 299.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

34:19; 34:19

Numbers

14:8

Deuteronomy

21:14; 21:14; 25:7; 25:7; 25:8

Judges

13:23

Ruth

3:13

1 Samuel

2:25; 18:22; 19:1

2 Samuel

15:26; 20:11; 22:20; 24:3

1 Kings

9:1; 10:9

2 Chronicles

9:8

Esther

2:14; 6:6; 6:6; 6:7; 6:9; 6:11

Job

9:3; 13:3; 21:14; 21:14; 33:32; 40:17; 40:17

Psalms

18:20; 22:9; 37:23; 37:23; 40:7; 40:9; 41:12; 51:8; 51:18; 68:31; 68:31; 73:25; 109:17; 112:1; 115:3; 119:35; 135:6; 147:10; 147:10

Proverbs

18:2; 21:1

Ecclesiastes

8:3

Song of Songs

2:7; 3:5; 8:4

Isaiah

1:11; 13:17; 13:17; 42:21; 53:10; 55:11; 56:4; 58:2; 58:2; 58:2; 62:4; 65:12; 66:3; 66:3; 66:4

Jeremiah

6:10; 6:10; 9:23; 42:22

Ezekiel

18:23; 18:23; 18:32; 33:11

Hosea

6:6

Jonah

1:14

Micah

7:18

Malachi

2:17

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2654 matches the Hebrew חָפֵץ (ḥāp̄ēṣ),
which occurs 75 times in 71 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 34:19–Sng 8:4)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:19 -

The young man did not delay doing this, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was the most important in all his father’s family.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:8 -

“If the LORD is pleased with us, he will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and give it to us.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:14 -

“Then if you are not satisfied with her, you are to let her go where she wants, but you must not sell her or treat her as merchandise,[fn] because you have humiliated her.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:7 -

“But if the man doesn’t want to marry his sister-in-law, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, ‘My brother-in-law refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He isn’t willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.’

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:8 -

“The elders of his city will summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, ‘I don’t want to marry her,’

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:23 -

But his wife said to him, “If the LORD had intended to kill us, he wouldn’t have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us, and he would not have shown us all these things or spoken to us like this.”

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:13 -

“Stay here tonight, and in the morning, if he wants to redeem you, that’s good. Let him redeem you. But if he doesn’t want to redeem you, as the LORD lives, I will. Now lie down until morning.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:25 -

“If one person sins against another, God can intercede for him, but if a person sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him? ” But they would not listen to their father, since the LORD intended to kill them.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:22 -

Saul then ordered his servants, “Speak to David in private and tell him, ‘Look, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you. Therefore, you should become the king’s son-in-law.’ ”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:2 -

so he told him, “My father, Saul, intends to kill you. Be on your guard in the morning and hide in a secret place and stay there.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:26 -

“However, if he should say, ‘I do not delight in you,’ then here I am ​— ​he can do with me whatever pleases him.”[fn]

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:11 -

One of Joab’s young men had stood over Amasa saying, “Whoever favors Joab and whoever is for David, follow Joab! ”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:20 -

He brought me out to a spacious place;

he rescued me because he delighted in me.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:3 -

Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God multiply the troops a hundred times more than they are ​— ​while my lord the king looks on! But why does my lord the king want to do this? ”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:1 -

When Solomon finished building the temple of the LORD, the royal palace, and all that Solomon desired to do,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:9 -

“Blessed be the LORD your God! He delighted in you and put you on the throne of Israel, because of the LORD’s eternal love for Israel. He has made you king to carry out justice and righteousness.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:8 -

“Blessed be the LORD your God! He delighted in you and put you on his throne as king for the LORD your God. Because your God loved Israel enough to establish them forever, he has set you over them as king to carry out justice and righteousness.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:14 -

She would go in the evening, and in the morning she would return to a second harem under the supervision of the king’s eunuch Shaashgaz, keeper of the concubines. She never went to the king again, unless he desired her and summoned her by name.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:6 -

Haman entered, and the king asked him, “What should be done for the man the king wants to honor? ”

Haman thought to himself, “Who is it the king would want to honor more than me? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:7 -

Haman told the king, “For the man the king wants to honor:

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:9 -

“Put the garment and the horse under the charge of one of the king’s most noble officials. Have them clothe the man the king wants to honor, parade him on the horse through the city square, and call out before him, ‘This is what is done for the man the king wants to honor.’ ”

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:11 -

So Haman took the garment and the horse. He clothed Mordecai and paraded him through the city square, calling out before him, “This is what is done for the man the king wants to honor.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:3 -

If one wanted to take him to court,

he could not answer God[fn] once in a thousand times.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:3 -

Yet I prefer to speak to the Almighty

and argue my case before God.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:14 -

Yet they say to God, “Leave us alone!

We don’t want to know your ways.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:32 -

But if you have something to say,[fn] answer me;

speak, for I would like to justify you.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:17 -

He stiffens his tail like a cedar tree;

the tendons of his thighs are woven firmly together.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:19 -

He brought me out to a spacious place;

he rescued me because he delighted in me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:8 -

“He relies on[fn] the LORD;

let him save him;

let the LORD[fn] rescue him,

since he takes pleasure in him.”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:23 -

A person’s steps are established by the LORD,

and he takes pleasure in his way.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:6 -

You do not delight in sacrifice and offering;

you open my ears to listen.[fn]

You do not ask for a whole burnt offering or a sin offering.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:8 -

“I delight to do your will, my God,

and your instruction is deep within me.”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:11 -

By this I know that you delight in me:

my enemy does not shout in triumph over me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:6 -

Surely you desire integrity in the inner self,

and you teach me wisdom deep within.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:16 -

You do not want a sacrifice, or I would give it;

you are not pleased with a burnt offering.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:19 -

Then you will delight in righteous sacrifices,

whole burnt offerings;

then bulls will be offered on your altar.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:30 -

Rebuke the beast in the reeds,

the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples.

Trample underfoot those with bars of silver.[fn]

Scatter the peoples who take pleasure in war.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:25 -

Who do I have in heaven but you?

And I desire nothing on earth but you.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:17 -

He loved cursing ​— ​let it fall on him;

he took no delight in blessing ​— ​let it be far from him.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:1 -

Hallelujah![fn]

Happy is the person who fears the LORD,

taking great delight in his commands.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:3 -

Our God is in heaven

and does whatever he pleases.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:35 -

Help me stay on the path of your commands,

for I take pleasure in it.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:6 -

The LORD does whatever he pleases

in heaven and on earth,

in the seas and all the depths.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:10 -

He is not impressed by the strength of a horse;

he does not value the power of a warrior.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:2 -

A fool does not delight in understanding,

but only wants to show off his opinions.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:1 -

A king’s heart is like channeled water in the LORD’s hand:

He directs it wherever he chooses.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:3 -

Do not be in a hurry; leave his presence, and don’t persist in a bad cause, since he will do whatever he wants.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:7 -

Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you

by the gazelles and the wild does of the field,

do not stir up or awaken love

until the appropriate time.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:5 -

Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you

by the gazelles and the wild does of the field,

do not stir up or awaken love

until the appropriate time.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:4 -

Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you,

do not stir up or awaken love

until the appropriate time.


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