{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H2654",
  "lemma": "חָפֵץ",
  "transliteration": "châphêts",
  "definition": "properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire",
  "kjv": "[idiom] any at all, (have, take) delight, desire, favour, like, move, be (well)…",
  "occurrences": 75,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "חָפֵץ vb. delight in",
    "חָפַץ vb",
    "[חָפַץ] vb. bend down—only Qal Jb 40:17"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 34:19",
      "text": "The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/34?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 14:8",
      "text": "If the LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land which flows with milk and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/14?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 21:14",
      "text": "It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she desires; but you shall not sell her at…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/21?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 25:7",
      "text": "If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/25?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 25:8",
      "text": "Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her,”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/25?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 13:23",
      "text": "But his wife said to him, “If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he wouldn’t have received a burnt offering and a meal…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/13?v=23"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 2:25",
      "text": "If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against the LORD, who will intercede for him?”…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/2?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 18:22",
      "text": "Saul commanded his servants, “Talk with David secretly, and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/18?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 19:1",
      "text": "Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/19?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 15:26",
      "text": "but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you,’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/15?v=26"
    }
  ],
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