H2654 חָפֵץ

חָפֵץ (châphêts), Strong’s H2654: 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…

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châphêts — 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)…

Occurs 75 times.

Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חָפֵץ vb. delight in
- חָפַץ vb
- [חָפַץ] vb. bend down—only Qal Jb 40:17

Where it occurs
- Genesis 34:19 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/34?v=19) — The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all…
- Numbers 14:8 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/14?v=8) — 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…
- Deuteronomy 21:14 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/21?v=14) — 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…
- Deuteronomy 25:7 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/25?v=7) — 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…
- Deuteronomy 25:8 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/25?v=8) — 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,”
- Judges 13:23 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/13?v=23) — 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…
- 1 Samuel 2:25 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/2?v=25) — If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against the LORD, who will intercede for him?”…
- 1 Samuel 18:22 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/18?v=22) — Saul commanded his servants, “Talk with David secretly, and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his…
- 1 Samuel 19:1 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/19?v=1) — Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly…
- 2 Samuel 15:26 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/15?v=26) — but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you,’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him.”