King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H2654
Transliteration: chaphets
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-fates')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to delight in
Meaning: to incline to, to bend, to be pleased with, desire
Word Summary
chaphets: to delight in
Original Word: חָפֵץTransliteration: chaphets
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-fates')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to delight in
Meaning: to incline to, to bend, to be pleased with, desire
Strong's Concordance
to be pleased with, desireA primitive root; properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire -- X any at all, (have, take) delight, desire, favour, like, move, be (well) pleased, have pleasure, will, would.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2654. chaphets
חָפֵץ verb delight in (compare Arabic be mindful of, attentive to, keep, protect, Aramaic whence eager, zealous, Arabic anger (excitement), enrage (Aramaic and Arabic of excited attention, Hebrew of delighted attention), DlPr 168 NöZMG 1886, 742; Late Hebrew חֵפֶץ weakened to thing, see DeEc. Glossary, Phoenician in proper name חפצבעל); —
Qal Perfect ׳ח Genesis 34:19 28t.; feminine הָפֵ֑צָה Isaiah 66:3?; 2masculine חָפַצְתָּ Deuteronomy 21:14 4t.; חָפָ֫צְנוּ Job 21:14, etc., + 14 t. Perfect; Imperfect יַחְמֹּץ Deuteronomy 25:7 7t.; יֶחְמָּ֑ץ Psalm 37:23; 147:10; plural יַחְמְּצוּ Isaiah 13:17; Jeremiah 6:10; יֶחְמָּ֑צוּ Psalm 68:31; יֶחְמָּצוּ֑ן Isaiah 58:2 (twice in verse) etc. + 9 t. Imperfect; Infinitive absolute חָפֹץ Ezekiel 18:23; on Participle חָפֵץ = adjective verb., see below; —
1 of men:
a. take pleasure in, delight in, with בְּ, a woman Genesis 34:19 (J), Deuteronomy 21:14; Esther 2:14; a man 1 Samuel 18:22; 19:1; 2 Samuel 20:11; in matters and things 24:3; Isaiah 13:17; 66:3; Jeremiah 6:10; Psalm 109:17; 112:1; 119:35; Proverbs 18:2; Esther 6:6-7, 9 (twice in verse); 6:11; with accusative Psalm 68:31; Isaiah 58:2; Ecclesiastes 8:3; implicit object Psalm 73:25.
b. delight, desire, be pleased to do a thing, would do it Deuteronomy 25:7-8, 1 Kings 9:1; Esther 6:6; Ruth 3:13; Psalm 40:9; Job 9:3; 13:3; 21:14; 33:32; Isaiah 58:2; Jeremiah 42:22.
c. absolute שֶׁתֶּחְמָּ֑ץ עַד until it please (of love) Song of Solomon 2:7; 3:5; 8:4.
2 of God:
a. delight in, have pleasure in, with בְּ, persons Numbers 14:8 (J), 2 Samuel 15:26; 22:20 = Psalm 18:20, 1 Kings 10:9 2 Chronicles 9:8; Psalm 22:9; 41:12; Isaiah 62:4; not in the strength of a horse Psalm 147:10; in doing evil Malachi 2:17; in the death of the sinner Ezekiel 18:32; 33:11; but in mercy, justice, and righteousness Jeremiah 9:23; חפצתי (לא) באשׁר בחר Isaiah 56:4; 65:12; 66:4; not with (accusative) the blood of bullocks 1:11; ׅ (ים זבח; Psalm 40:7; 51:18, 21, or the death of the sinner Ezekiel 18:23 (twice in verse); but with חסד Hosea 6:6; Micah 7:18, אמת Psalm 51:8; with the way of a man 37:23; חפץ אשׁר כל 115:3; 135:6; Proverbs 21:1; חפץ אשׁר Isaiah 55:11; Jonah 1:14.
b. pleased to do a thing with infinitive Judges 13:23; 1 Samuel 2:25; Isaiah 53:10.
c. with imperfect subject (Ges§ 142 (3) c) ׳י תּורה יגדיל חָפֵץ Yahweh was pleased to magnify teaching Isaiah 42:21. — On Job 40:17 see חָפַץ.
[חָפַץ] verb bend down (Arabic lower, depress, as wings Qor 15:88) — only
Qal Imperfect כְמוֺאֶֿרֶז זְנָבוֺ יַחְמֹּץ Job 40:17; he bendeth down (extendeth down stiffly) his tail like a cedar, see Wetzst in DeJob 526 HiHiob 299.