# H2656 חֵפֶץ

חֵפֶץ (chêphets), Strong’s H2656: pleasure; hence (abstractly) desire; concretely, a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind) KJV: acceptable, delight(-some), desire…

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*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](https://besorah.bible/word/H2654) (to incline to)

Occurs 39 times.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/15?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/18?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/23?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/5?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/5?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/5?v=24) — So Hiram gave Solomon cedar timber and cypress timber according to all his desire.
- [1 Kings 9:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/9?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/10?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/44?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/46?v=10) — I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will…