Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H2656

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Original: חפץ

Transliteration: chephets (chêphets)

Phonetic: khay'-fets

BDB Definition:

delight, pleasure
1. delight
2. desire, longing
3. the good pleasure
4. that in which one takes delight

Origin: from H2654

TWOT entry: 712b

Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine

Strong's Definition: From H2654; pleasure ; hence (abstractly) desire ; concretely a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind): - acceptable, delight (-some), desire, things desired, matter, pleasant (-ure), purpose, willingly.

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (39x)

Acceptable (1x)

According To All His Desire (1x)

All Her Desire (2x)

All His Desire (1x)

All My Delight (1x)

All My Pleasure (2x)

All Thy Desire (1x)

And All The Things That May Be Desired (1x)

And All The Things Thou Canst Desire (1x)

And The Pleasure (1x)

Any Pleasure (1x)

Because To Every Purpose (1x)

But His Delight (1x)

Delight (1x)

Desire (2x)

Desireth (1x)

For What Pleasure (1x)

For Ye Shall Be A Delightsome (1x)

His Pleasure (1x)

I Have No Pleasure (2x)

My Desire (1x)

No Pleasure (4x)

Not At The Matter (1x)

Of All Them That Have Pleasure (1x)

Of Pleasant (1x)

Pleasure (1x)

Them Unto Their Desired (1x)

There For Every Purpose (1x)

Thine Own Pleasure (1x)

Thy Pleasure (1x)

To Every Purpose (1x)

Willingly (1x)

All Occurrences

1 Samuel 15:22

And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

1 Samuel 18:25

And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

2 Samuel 23:5

Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.

1 Kings 5:8

And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things which thou sentest to me for: and I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.(d)

1 Kings 5:9

My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.(e)

1 Kings 5:10

So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire.

1 Kings 9:11

(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

1 Kings 10:13

And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.(i)

2 Chronicles 9:12

And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.

Job 21:21

For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

Job 22:3

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

Job 31:16

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

Psalm 1:2

But his delight is in the law of the Lord ; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

Psalm 16:3

But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

Psalm 107:30

Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

Psalm 111:2

The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.

Proverbs 3:15

She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.

Proverbs 8:11

For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

Proverbs 31:13

She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.

Ecclesiastes 3:1

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

Ecclesiastes 3:17

I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

Ecclesiastes 5:4

When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.(b)

Ecclesiastes 8:6

Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

Ecclesiastes 12:10

The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.(c)

Isaiah 44:28

That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.

Isaiah 46:10

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

Isaiah 48:14

All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The Lord hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

Isaiah 53:10

Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.(i)

Isaiah 54:12

And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.

Isaiah 58:3

Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.(b)

Isaiah 58:13

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord , honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

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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.

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Hebrew-Aramaic H2656

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Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H2656