חֵפֶץ chephets

Hebrew word for “pleasure” · Strong’s H2656 · used 39 times in 38 verses

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Meaning

1) delight, pleasure; 1a) delight; 1b) desire, longing; 1c) the good pleasure; 1d) that in which one takes delight

How it is translated

Glosses given for chephets in context, with how often each is used:

• pleasure 11
• desire 10
• delight 7
• matter 4
• pleasures 3
• ¿ does delight 1
• ¿ does pleasure 1
• any of the desire 1
• those delighting in 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Kings 5 (3), Ecclesiastes 3 (2), Ecclesiastes 5 (2), Ecclesiastes 12 (2), Isaiah 58 (2), 1 Samuel 15 (1), 1 Samuel 18 (1), 2 Samuel 23 (1), 1 Kings 9 (1), 1 Kings 10 (1)

Forms

• חפץ 15
• חפצו 5
• חפצי 4
• החפץ 3
• חפצך 2
• חפצה 2
• חפציך 2
• מחפץ 1
• חפצם 1
• חפציהם 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with chephets more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אַיִן ayin “nothing” 7
• אִם im “if” 7
• שְׁלֹמֹה shelomoh “Solomon” 5
• חִירָם chiram “Hiram” 3
• בְּרוֹשׁ berosh “cypress” 3
• אֶרֶז erez “cedar” 3
• פְּנִינִים panin “jewel” 2
• שׂוּם sum “to set” 4
• נָפַץ naphats “to shatter” 2
• שָׁוָה shavah “be like” 2
• שְׁבָא sheva “Sheba” 2
• עֵת et “time” 3

Key verses

The verses using chephets that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 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…
• 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…
• Job 31:16 — If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
• Psalms 1:2 — But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
• Psalms 16:3 — But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
• 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…
• 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;
• 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 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…
• 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…
• Malachi 1:10 — Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.