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Lexicon :: Strong's H2532 - ḥemdâ

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חֶמְדָּה
Transliteration
ḥemdâ
Pronunciation
khem-daw'
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Part of Speech
adjective, feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 673b

Strong’s Definitions

חֶמְדָּה chemdâh, khem-daw'; feminine of H2531; delight:—desire, goodly, pleasant, precious.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 25x

The KJV translates Strong's H2532 in the following manner: pleasant (12x), desire (4x), beloved (3x), goodly (2x), precious (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 25x
The KJV translates Strong's H2532 in the following manner: pleasant (12x), desire (4x), beloved (3x), goodly (2x), precious (4x).
feminine noun

  1. desire, that which is desirable

    adjective

  2. pleasant, precious

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חֶמְדָּה chemdâh, khem-daw'; feminine of H2531; delight:—desire, goodly, pleasant, precious.
STRONGS H2532: Abbreviations
† חֶמְדָּה noun feminine id. — ח׳ Hosea 13:15 + 8 times; construct חֶמְדַּת 1 Samuel 9:20 + 3 times; suffix חֶמְדָּתִי Jeremiah 12:10; חֶמְדָּתֵךְ Ezekiel 26:12; חֶמְדָּתָם Daniel 11:8; — desire of Israel 1 Samuel 9:20 followed by לְ before object of desire; בְּלֹא ח׳ = without desire 2 Chronicles 21:20 (i.e. he lived as no one desired), see Öttli Greek Version of the LXX (not LXX of Lucian (Lag.)) Vulgate; concrete: ישׂראל כלחֿ׳ 1 Samuel 9:20 and for whom is all that is desirable in Israel? so Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate RV Dr; (>AV and on whom is all the desire of Israel?); compare כלהֿגוים ובאו ח׳ Haggai 2:7 (i.e. the desirable, precious things of all nations); elsewhere after construct as חֶמֶד; especially כלי ח׳ Hosea 13:15; Nahum 2:10; Jeremiah 25:34; 2 Chronicles 32:27; 36:10; Daniel 11:8; שְׂכִיּוֺת ח׳ Isaiah 2:16, אֶרֶץ ח׳ Psalm 106:24; Jeremiah 3:19; Zechariah 7:14, compare חֶלְקַת ח׳ Jeremiah 12:10; בתי ח׳ Ezekiel 26:12; נשׁים ח׳ Daniel 11:37, apparently reference to some object of idolatrous worship, perhaps Adonis = Tammuz Ew Bev (Astarte, Meinh).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Samuel

9:20; 9:20; 9:20

2 Chronicles

21:20; 32:27; 36:10

Psalms

106:24

Isaiah

2:16

Jeremiah

3:19; 12:10; 12:10; 25:34

Ezekiel

26:12; 26:12

Daniel

11:8; 11:8; 11:37

Hosea

13:15; 13:15

Nahum

2:10

Haggai

2:7

Zechariah

7:14

H2532

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2532 matches the Hebrew חֶמְדָּה (ḥemdâ),
which occurs 18 times in 18 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:15 - Then Rebekah took her elder son Esau’s best clothes, which were with her in her house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:20 - “As for your donkeys which were lost three days ago, do not be concerned about them, for they have been found. And for whom are all things that are desirable in Israel? Are they not for you and for all your father’s household (family)?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 21:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:20 - Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years; and he departed with no one’s regret (sorrow). They buried him in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:27 -

Now Hezekiah had immense wealth and honor; and he made for himself treasuries for silver, gold, precious stones, spices, shields, and all kinds of delightful articles,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:10 - Now at the turn of the year [in the spring], King Nebuchadnezzar sent word and had him brought to Babylon with the valuable articles of the house of the LORD, and made his brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:27 - also 20 bowls of gold worth 1,000 darics, and two utensils of fine [fn]shiny bronze, precious as gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:24 -

Then they despised the pleasant land [of Canaan];

They did not believe in His word nor rely on it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:16 -

Against all the ships of Tarshish

And against all the beautiful craft.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:19 -

“Then I said,

‘How [gloriously and honorably] I would set you among My children

And give you a pleasant land—a wonderful heritage,

The most beautiful inheritance of the nations!’

And I said, ‘You shall call Me, My Father

And not turn away from following Me.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:10 -

“Many shepherds (invaders) have destroyed My vineyard (Judah),

They have trampled My field underfoot;

They have made My pleasant field

A desolate wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:34 -

“Wail, you shepherds, and cry;

And roll in ashes, you masters of the flock.

For the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions have come in full,

And you will fall and be broken into pieces like a choice vessel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:12 - “Also they will take your riches as spoil and plunder your merchandise, and tear down your walls and your pleasant houses, and throw your stones and your timber and the debris [from your city] out in the water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:8 - “Also he will carry off to Egypt their [Syrian] gods with their cast images and their precious and costly treasure of silver and of gold, and he will refrain from waging war against the king of the North for some years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:37

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:37 - “He will have no regard for the gods of his fathers or for the desire of women, nor will he have regard for any other god, for he shall magnify himself above them all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:15 -

For though he flourishes among the reeds (his fellow tribes),

An east wind (Assyria) will come,

The breath of the LORD rising from the desert;

And Ephraim’s spring will become dry

And his fountain will be dried up.

Assyria will plunder his treasury of every precious object.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:9 -

Plunder the silver!

Plunder the gold!

For there is no end to the treasure—

Wealth from every precious object.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hag 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:7 - ‘I will shake all the nations; and they will come with the desirable and precious things of all nations, and I will fill this house with glory and splendor,’ says the LORD of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:14 - “but I scattered them with a storm wind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after they had gone, so that no one passed through or returned, for they [by their sins] had made the pleasant land desolate and deserted.”
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