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Lexicon :: Strong's H2656 - ḥēp̄eṣ

Aa
חֵפֶץ
Transliteration
ḥēp̄eṣ
Pronunciation
khay'-fets
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 712b

Strong’s Definitions

חֵפֶץ chêphets, khay'-fets; from H2654; pleasure; hence (abstractly) desire; concretely, a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind):—acceptable, delight(-some), desire, things desired, matter, pleasant(-ure), purpose, willingly.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x

The KJV translates Strong's H2656 in the following manner: pleasure (16x), desire (12x), delight (3x), purpose (3x), acceptable (1x), delightsome (1x), matter (1x), pleasant (1x), willingly (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x
The KJV translates Strong's H2656 in the following manner: pleasure (16x), desire (12x), delight (3x), purpose (3x), acceptable (1x), delightsome (1x), matter (1x), pleasant (1x), willingly (1x).

  1. delight, pleasure

    1. delight

    2. desire, longing

    3. the good pleasure

    4. that in which one takes delight

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חֵפֶץ chêphets, khay'-fets; from H2654; pleasure; hence (abstractly) desire; concretely, a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind):—acceptable, delight(-some), desire, things desired, matter, pleasant(-ure), purpose, willingly.
STRONGS H2656: Abbreviations
† חֵ֫פֶץ noun masculineProverbs 3:15 delight, pleasure; — ח׳ Isaiah 54:12 + 20 times; suffix חֶפְצְךָ Isaiah 58:13 etc. + 13 times suffixes; plural חֲפָצִים Proverbs 8:11; suffix חֲפָצֶיךָ Proverbs 3:15; חֲפָצֶ֖ךָ Isaiah 58:13 —
1. delight אבני ח׳ Isaiah 54:12 delightful stones; אֶרֶץ ח׳ Malachi 3:12 delightsome land; דִּבְּרֵי ח׳ Ecclesiastes 12:10; so perhaps also בִּגְדֵי ח׳ Ezekiel 27:20 garments of delight, i.e. of beauty and luxury (Gr; MT חֹפֶשׁ which see); with בְּ of persons Psalm 16:3; Ecclesiastes 5:3; Malachi 1:10; of things 1 Samuel 15:22; 1 Samuel 18:25; Psalm 1:2; Job 21:21; Ecclesiastes 12:1; כְּלִי אֵין חֵפֶץ בּוֺ vessel wherein is no pleasure Jeremiah 22:28; Jeremiah 48:38; Hosea 8:8; הַחֵפֶץ לְשַׁדַּי כִּי Job 22:3 is it a pleasure to Shadday that ?
2. desire, longing דלים מנע מח׳ Job 31:16 withhold the poor from (their) desire; מְחוֺז חֶפְצָם the city of their desire Psalm 107:30; כל חפץ all (one's) desire 2 Samuel 23:5; 1 Kings 5:22 [1 Kings 5:8]; 1 Kings 5:23 [1 Kings 5:9]; 1 Kings 5:24 [1 Kings 5:10]; 1 Kings 9:11; 1 Kings 10:13 2 Chronicles 9:12; כל חפצים all things to be desired Proverbs 3:15; Proverbs 8:11.
3. the good pleasure, will, purpose, of Yahweh Isaiah 44:28; Isaiah 46:10; Isaiah 48:14.
4. that in which one takes delight, his business (late), or matter (very late, compare in Mishna＝thing) בְּיָדוֺ יִצְלַח חֵפֶץ י׳ the good pleasure (cause, business) of Yahweh will prosper in his hands Isaiah 53:10; מצא ח׳ Isaiah 58:3, 13; עֲשׂוֺת חֲפָצֶךָ doing thy affairs Isaiah 58:13 (see De on the passage); בְּחֵפֶץ כַּמֶּיהָ in the business of her hands Proverbs 31:13; עֵתּ לְכָלחֵֿפֶץ time for every matter, affair Ecclesiastes 3:1, 17; Ecclesiastes 8:6; אַלֿ תִּתְּמַהּ עַלהַֿחֵפֶץ marvel not at the matter Ecclesiastes 5:7.
Note. — חפץ is not used in any of its forms in E D2 H P of the Hexateuch.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Samuel

15:22; 18:25

2 Samuel

23:5

1 Kings

5:8; 5:9; 5:10; 9:11; 10:13

2 Chronicles

9:12

Job

21:21; 22:3; 31:16

Psalms

1:2; 16:3; 107:30

Proverbs

3:15; 3:15; 3:15; 8:11; 8:11; 31:13

Ecclesiastes

3:1; 3:17; 5:3; 5:7; 8:6; 12:1; 12:10

Isaiah

44:28; 46:10; 48:14; 53:10; 54:12; 54:12; 58:3; 58:13; 58:13; 58:13; 58:13

Jeremiah

22:28; 48:38

Ezekiel

27:20

Hosea

8:8

Malachi

1:10; 3:12

H2656

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Strong's Number H2656 matches the Hebrew חֵפֶץ (ḥēp̄eṣ),
which occurs 39 times in 38 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:22 - And Samuel said, Has the Lord as much delight in offerings and burned offerings as in the doing of his orders? Truly, to do his pleasure is better than to make offerings, and to give ear to him than the fat of sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:25 - And Saul said, Then say to David, The king has no desire for any bride-price, but only for the private parts of a hundred Philistines so that the king may get the better of his haters. But it was in Saul's mind that David might come to his end by the hands of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:5 - For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:8 - Then Hiram sent to Solomon, saying; The words you sent have been given to me: I will do all your desire in the question of cedar-wood and cypress-wood.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:9 - My men will take them down from Lebanon to the sea, where I will have them corded together to go by sea to whatever place you say, and I will have them cut up there so that you may take them away; as for payment, it will be enough if you give me food for my people.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:10 - So Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar-wood and cypress-wood he had need of;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:11 - (Hiram, king of Tyre, had given Solomon cedar-trees and cypress-trees and gold, as much as he had need of,) King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:13 - And King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she made request for, in addition to what he gave her freely from the impulse of his heart. So she went back to her country, she and her servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:12 - And King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she made request for, in addition to what she had taken to the king. So she went back to her country with her servants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:21 - For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:3 - Is it of any interest to the Ruler of all that you are upright? or is it of use to him that your ways are without sin?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:16 - If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 1:2 - But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:3 - As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the noble in whom is all my delight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:30 - Then they are glad, because the sea is quiet, and he takes them to the harbour of their desire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 111:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 111:2 - The works of the Lord are great, searched out by all those who have delight in them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:15 - She is of more value than jewels, and nothing for which you may have a desire is fair in comparison with her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:11 - For wisdom is better than jewels, and all things which may be desired are nothing in comparison with her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:13 - She gets wool and linen, working at the business of her hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:1 - For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:17 - I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:4 - When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:8 - If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:6 - For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:1 - Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:10 - The Preacher made search for words which were pleasing, but his writing was in words upright and true.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:28 - Who says of Cyrus, He will take care of my sheep, and will do all my pleasure: who says of Jerusalem, I will give the word for your building; and of the Temple, Your bases will be put in place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:10 - Making clear from the first what is to come, and from past times the things which have not so far come about; saying, My purpose is fixed, and I will do all my pleasure;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:14 - Come together, all of you, and give ear; who among you has given news of these things? the Lord's loved one will do his pleasure with Babylon, and with the seed of the Chaldaeans.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:10 - And the Lord was pleased ... see a seed, long life, ... will do well in his hand. ...

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:12 - I will make your towers of rubies, and your doors of carbuncles, and the wall round you will be of all sorts of beautiful stones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:3 - They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:13 - If you keep the Sabbath with care, not doing your business on my holy day; and if the Sabbath seems to you a delight, and the new moon of the Lord a thing to be honoured; and if you give respect to him by not doing your business, or going after your pleasure, or saying unholy words;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:28 - Is this man Coniah a broken vessel of no value? is he a vessel in which there is no pleasure? why are they violently sent out, he and his seed, into a land which is strange to them?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:38 - On all the house-tops of Moab and in its streets there is weeping everywhere; for Moab has been broken like a vessel in which there is no pleasure, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:8 - Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:10 - If only there was one among you who would see that the doors were shut, so that you might not put a light to the fire on my altar for nothing! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of armies, and I will not take an offering from your hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:12 - And you will be named happy by all nations: for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of armies.
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