# H2530 חָמַד

חָמַד (châmad), Strong’s H2530: to delight in KJV: beauty, greatly beloved, covet, delectable thing, ([idiom] great) delight, desire…. Occurs 28 times.

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*châmad* — to delight in

KJV: beauty, greatly beloved, covet, delectable thing, ([idiom] great) delight, desire…

Occurs 28 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חָמַד vb. desire, take pleasure in
- Qal desire
- Niph. desirable
- Pi. delight greatly
- חֲמוּדָה n.f
- [חֲמוּדָה] n.f. desirableness, preciousness

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 2:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=9) — Out of the ground the LORD God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the…
- [Genesis 3:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=6) — When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be…
- [Exodus 20:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/20?v=17) — “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his…
- [Exodus 34:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/34?v=24) — For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up…
- [Deuteronomy 5:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/5?v=21) — “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male…
- [Deuteronomy 7:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/7?v=25) — You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them…
- [Joshua 7:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/7?v=21) — When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing…
- [Isaiah 1:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/1?v=29) — For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have…
- [Isaiah 44:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/44?v=9) — Everyone who makes a carved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t…
- [Isaiah 53:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/53?v=2) — For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we…