Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H2654

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Original: חפץ

Transliteration: chaphets (châphêts)

Phonetic: khaw-fates'

BDB Definition:

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
to move, bend down
1. (Qal) to bend down

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT entry: 712,713

Part(s) of speech: Verb

Strong's Definition: A primitive root; properly to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend ; figuratively to be pleased with, desire: - X any at all, (have, take) delight, desire, favour, like, move, be (well) pleased, have pleasure, will, would.

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (75x)

And Delight (1x)

And He Delighteth (2x)

And I Delight (1x)

And I Desire (1x)

And It Shall Be, If Thou Have No Delight (1x)

As It Pleased (1x)

At All (1x)

Because He Delighteth (1x)

Because He Had Delight (1x)

Behold, Thou Desirest (1x)

But If He Will (1x)

Delight (4x)

Delighted (2x)

Delighteth (8x)

For I Desire (1x)

For I Desired (1x)

For I Have No Pleasure (1x)

For Therein Do I Delight (1x)

For Thou Desirest (1x)

From Us; For We Desire (1x)

Hath Delight (1x)

Hath No Delight (1x)

Have I Any Pleasure (1x)

He Delighteth (1x)

He Moveth (1x)

Him, Seeing He Delighted (1x)

I Delight (2x)

I Desire (1x)

I Have No Delight (1x)

I Have No Pleasure (1x)

I Like (1x)

If He Will (1x)

In Which I Delighted (1x)

Is Well Pleased (1x)

It Whithersoever He Will (1x)

Like (1x)

Me, Because He Delighted (2x)

Pleased (1x)

That Favoureth (1x)

That Please (1x)

That Thou Favourest (1x)

That Which I Please (1x)

Then Shalt Thou Be Pleased (1x)

They Have No Delight (1x)

They Shall Not Delight (1x)

They Take Delight (1x)

Thou Didst Not Desire (1x)

Till He Please (2x)

Until He Please (1x)

Unto Him: As He Delighted (1x)

Were Pleased (1x)

Whatsoever He Hath Pleased (1x)

Whatsoever Pleaseth (1x)

Wherein I Delighted (1x)

Which Delighted (2x)

Which He Was Pleased (1x)

Whither Ye Desire (1x)

Would (1x)

Yet It Pleased (1x)

All Occurrences

Genesis 34:19

And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.

Numbers 14:8

If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 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 make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.

Deuteronomy 25:7

And if the man like not to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife 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 my husband’s brother.(c)

Deuteronomy 25:8

Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;

Judges 13:23

But his wife said unto him, If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.

Ruth 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 the Lord liveth: lie down until the morning.

1 Samuel 2:25

If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the Lord , who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them.

1 Samuel 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.

1 Samuel 19:2

But Jonathan Saul’s son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:

2 Samuel 15:26

But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.

2 Samuel 20:11

And one of Joab’s men stood by him, and said, He that favoureth Joab, and he that is for David, let him go after Joab.

2 Samuel 22:20

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

2 Samuel 24:3

And Joab said unto the king, Now the Lord thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?

1 Kings 9:1

And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord , and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,

1 Kings 10:9

Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the Lord loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.

2 Chronicles 9:8

Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for the Lord thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.

Esther 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, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.

Esther 6:6

So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?(d)

Esther 6:7

And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,(e)

Esther 6:9

And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him 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 honour.(h)

Esther 6:11

Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.

Job 9:3

If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

Job 13:3

Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

Job 21:14

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Job 33:32

If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.

Job 40:17

He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.(b)

Psalm 18:19

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

Psalm 22:8

He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.(e)

(f)

Psalm 37:23

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord : and he delighteth in his way.(g)

Psalm 40:6

Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.(d)

Psalm 40:8

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.(e)

Psalm 41:11

By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.

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Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

Strong's Concor­dance

Hebrew-Aramaic H2654

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Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H2654