STRONGS NUMBER H2654


Word Summary
chaphets: to delight in
Original Word: חָפֵץ
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
Strong's Concordance
to be pleased with, desire

A 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

חָפֵץverb 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 168ZMG 1886, 742; Late Hebrew חֵפֶץ‎ weakened to thing, see DeEc. Glossary, Phoenician in proper name חפצבעל‎); —

Qal Perfect ׳חGenesis 34:19 28t.; feminine הָפֵ֑צָהIsaiah 66:3?; 2masculine חָפַצְתָּDeuteronomy 21:14 4t.; חָפָ֫צְנוּJob 21:14, etc., + 14 t. Perfect; Imperfect יַחְמֹּץDeuteronomy 25:7 7t.; יֶחְמָּ֑ץPsalm 37:23; 147:10; plural יַחְמְּצוּIsaiah 13:17; Jeremiah 6:10; יֶחְמָּ֑צוּPsalm 68:31; יֶחְמָּצוּ֑ןIsaiah 58:2 (twice in verse) etc. + 9 t. Imperfect; Infinitive absolute חָפֹץEzekiel 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 עַדuntil 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 בחרIsaiah 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 חסדHosea 6:6; Micah 7:18, אמתPsalm 51:8; with the way of a man 37:23; חפץ אשׁר כל115:3; 135:6; Proverbs 21:1; חפץ אשׁרIsaiah 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 חָפֵץYahweh 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 יַחְמֹּץJob 40:17; he bendeth down (extendeth down stiffly) his tail like a cedar, see Wetzst in DeJob 526 HiHiob 299.