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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.
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

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 - The young man, who was the most honored of all his father’s family, lost no time in doing what they said, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:8 - If the LORD is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:14 - If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:7 - However, if a man does not want to marry his brother’s wife, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to carry on his brother’s name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:8 - Then the elders of his town shall summon him and talk to him. If he persists in saying, “I do not want to marry her,”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:23 - But his wife answered, “If the LORD had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and grain offering from our hands, nor shown us all these things or now told us this.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:13 - Stay here for the night, and in the morning if he wants to do his duty as your guardian-redeemer, good; let him redeem you. But if he is not willing, as surely as the LORD lives I will do it. Lie here until morning.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:25 - If one person sins against another, God[fn] may mediate for the offender; but if anyone sins against the LORD, who will intercede for them?” His sons, however, did not listen to their father’s rebuke, for it was the LORD’s will to put them to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 18:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:22 - Then Saul ordered his attendants: “Speak to David privately and say, ‘Look, the king likes you, and his attendants all love you; now become his son-in-law.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:2 - and warned him, “My father Saul is looking for a chance to kill you. Be on your guard tomorrow morning; go into hiding and stay there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:26 - But if he says, ‘I am not pleased with you,’ then I am ready; let him do to me whatever seems good to him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:11 - One of Joab’s men stood beside Amasa and said, “Whoever favors Joab, and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab!”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:20 - He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:3 - But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:1 - When Solomon had finished building the temple of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all he had desired to do,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 10:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:9 - Praise be to the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and placed you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD’s eternal love for Israel, he has made you king to maintain justice and righteousness.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:8 - Praise be to the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and placed you on his throne as king to rule for the LORD your God. Because of the love of your God for Israel and his desire to uphold them forever, he has made you king over them, to maintain justice and righteousness.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:14 - In the evening she would go there and in the morning return to another part of the harem to the care of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he was pleased with her and summoned her by name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:6 - When Haman entered, the king asked him, “What should be done for the man the king delights to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Who is there that the king would rather honor than me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:7 - So he answered the king, “For the man the king delights to honor,

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:9 - Then let the robe and horse be entrusted to one of the king’s most noble princes. Let them robe the man the king delights to honor, and lead him on the horse through the city streets, proclaiming before him, ‘This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:11 - So Haman got the robe and the horse. He robed Mordecai, and led him on horseback through the city streets, proclaiming before him, “This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:3 - Though they wished to dispute with him, they could not answer him one time out of a thousand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:3 - But I desire to speak to the Almighty and to argue my case with God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:14 - Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:32 - If you have anything to say, answer me; speak up, for I want to vindicate you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:17 - Its tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of its thighs are close-knit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:19 - He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:8 - “He trusts in the LORD,” they say, “let the LORD rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 37:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:23 - The LORD makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 40:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:6 - Sacrifice and offering you did not desire— but my ears you have opened[fn]— burnt offerings and sin offerings[fn] you did not require.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:8 - I desire to do your will, my God; your law is within my heart.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 41:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:11 - I know that you are pleased with me, for my enemy does not triumph over me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 51:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:6 - Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 51:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:16 - You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 51:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:19 - Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous, in burnt offerings offered whole; then bulls will be offered on your altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 68:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:30 - Rebuke the beast among the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations. Humbled, may the beast bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:25 - Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:17 - He loved to pronounce a curse— may it come back on him. He found no pleasure in blessing— may it be far from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 112:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:1 - [fn]Praise the LORD.[fn] Blessed are those who fear the LORD, who find great delight in his commands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 115:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:3 - Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:35

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:35 - Direct me in the path of your commands, for there I find delight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 135:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:6 - The LORD does whatever pleases him, in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all their depths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 147:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:10 - His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse, nor his delight in the legs of the warrior;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:2 - Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 21:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:1 - In the LORD’s hand the king’s heart is a stream of water that he channels toward all who please him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:3 - Do not be in a hurry to leave the king’s presence. Do not stand up for a bad cause, for he will do whatever he pleases.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:7 - Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:5 - Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:4 - Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.

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