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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 168 NöZMG 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 22:20＝Psalm 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.
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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

H2654

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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)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:19 - And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was honored above all the house of his father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:8 - If Jehovah delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it unto us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:14 - And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not deal with her as a slave, because thou hast humbled her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:7 - And if the man like not to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother unto me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:8 - Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand, and say, I like not to take her;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:23 - But his wife said unto him, If Jehovah were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt-offering and a meal-offering at our hand, neither would he have showed us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:13 - Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman’s part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as Jehovah liveth: lie down until the morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:25 - If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against Jehovah, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because Jehovah was minded to slay them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:22 - And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king’s son-in-law.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:2 - And Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to slay thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself in the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:26 - but if he say thus, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:11 - And there stood by him one of Joab’s young men, and said, He that favoreth Joab, and he that is for David, let him follow Joab.

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He brought me forth also into a large place;
He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:3 - And Joab said unto the king, Now Jehovah thy God add unto the people, how many soever they may be, a hundredfold; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:1 - And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Jehovah, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:9 - Blessed be Jehovah thy God, who delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because Jehovah loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do justice and righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:8 - Blessed be Jehovah thy God, who delighted in thee, to set thee on his throne, to be king for Jehovah thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do justice and righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:14 - In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s chamberlain, who kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and she were called by name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:6 - So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honor? Now Haman said in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honor more than to myself?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:7 - And Haman said unto the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honor,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:9 - and let the apparel and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man therewith whom the king delighteth to honor, and cause him to ride on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:11 - Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and caused him to ride through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honor.

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If he be pleased to contend with him,
He cannot answer him one of a thousand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:3 -
Surely I would speak to the Almighty,
And I desire to reason with God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:14 -
And they say unto God, Depart from us;
For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

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If thou hast anything to say, answer me:
Speak, for I desire to justify thee.

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He moveth his tail like a cedar:
The sinews of his thighs are knit together.

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He brought me forth also into a large place;
He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

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Commit thyself unto Jehovah;
let him deliver him:
Let him rescue him, seeing he delighteth in him.

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A man’s goings are established of Jehovah;
And he delighteth in his way.

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Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in;
Mine ears hast thou opened:
Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required.

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I delight to do thy will, O my God;
Yea, thy law is within my heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:11 -
By this I know that thou delightest in me,
Because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.

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Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts;
And in the hidden part thou wilt make me to know wisdom.

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For thou delightest not in sacrifice; else would I give it:
Thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.

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Then wilt thou delight in the sacrifices of righteousness,
In burnt-offering and whole burnt-offering:
Then will they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

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Rebuke the wild beast of the reeds,
The multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples,
Trampling under foot the pieces of silver:
He hath scattered the peoples that delight in war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:25 -
Whom have I in heaven but thee?
And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:17 -
Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him;
And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.

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Praise ye Jehovah.
Blessed is the man that feareth Jehovah,
That delighteth greatly in his commandments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:3 -
But our God is in the heavens:
He hath done whatsoever he pleased.

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Make me to go in the path of thy commandments;
For therein do I delight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:6 -
Whatsoever Jehovah pleased, that hath he done,
In heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps;

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He delighteth not in the strength of the horse:
He taketh no pleasure in the legs of a man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:2 -
A fool hath no delight in understanding,
But only that his heart may reveal itself.

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The king’s heart is in the hand of Jehovah as the watercourses:
He turneth it whithersoever he will.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:3 - Be not hasty to go out of his presence; persist not in an evil thing: for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

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I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
By the roes, or by the hinds of the field,
That ye stir not up, nor awake my love,
Until he please.

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I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
By the roes, or by the hinds of the field,
That ye stir not up, nor awake my love,
Until he please.

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I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
That ye stir not up, nor awake my love,
Until he please.

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