{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H2656",
  "lemma": "חֵפֶץ",
  "transliteration": "chêphets",
  "definition": "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…",
  "occurrences": 39,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H2654",
      "lemma": "חָפֵץ",
      "transliteration": "châphêts",
      "meaning": "to incline to",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H2654"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "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"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 15:22",
      "text": "Samuel said, “Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the LORD’s voice? Behold…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/15?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 18:25",
      "text": "Saul said, “Tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/18?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 23:5",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/23?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 5:22",
      "text": "Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message which you have sent to me. I will do all your desire…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/5?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 5:23",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/5?v=23"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 5:24",
      "text": "So Hiram gave Solomon cedar timber and cypress timber according to all his desire.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/5?v=24"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 9:11",
      "text": "(now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and cypress trees, and with gold, according to all…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/9?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 10:13",
      "text": "King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, in addition to that which Solomon gave her…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/10?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 44:28",
      "text": "who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,’ even saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/44?v=28"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 46:10",
      "text": "I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/46?v=10"
    }
  ],
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