H2656 חֵפֶץ
chêphets — pleasure; hence (abstractly) desire; concretely, a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind)
KJV: acceptable, delight(-some), desire, things desired, matter, pleasant(-ure), purpose…
Derived from חָפֵץ châphêts (to incline to)
Occurs 39 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חֵ֫פֶץ n.m. delight, pleasure
- 1 delight
- 2 desire, longing
- 3 the good pleasure, will, purpose, of Yahweh
- 4 that in which one takes delight, his business (late), or matter
Where it occurs
- 1 Samuel 15:22 — Samuel said, “Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the LORD’s voice? Behold…
- 1 Samuel 18:25 — Saul said, “Tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of…
- 2 Samuel 23:5 — Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is…
- 1 Kings 5:22 — Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message which you have sent to me. I will do all your desire…
- 1 Kings 5:23 — My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that…
- 1 Kings 5:24 — So Hiram gave Solomon cedar timber and cypress timber according to all his desire.
- 1 Kings 9:11 — (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and cypress trees, and with gold, according to all…
- 1 Kings 10:13 — King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, in addition to that which Solomon gave her…
- Isaiah 44:28 — who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,’ even saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be…
- Isaiah 46:10 — I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will…