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STRONGS NUMBER H2656
Transliteration: chephets
Phonetic Spelling: (khay'-fets)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: delight, pleasure
Meaning: pleasure, desire, a valuable thing, a matter
Word Summary
chephets: delight, pleasure
Original Word: חֵפֶץTransliteration: chephets
Phonetic Spelling: (khay'-fets)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: delight, pleasure
Meaning: pleasure, desire, a valuable thing, a matter
Strong's Concordance
acceptable, delightsome, desire, things desired, matter, pleasant, purposeFrom chaphets; 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.
see HEBREW chaphets
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2656. chephets
חֵ֫פֶץ noun masculineProverbs 3:15 delight, pleasure; — ׳ח Isaiah 54:12 20t.; suffix חֶפְצְךָ 58:13 etc. + 13 t. suffixes; plural חֲפָצִים Proverbs 8:11; suffix חֲפָצֶיךָ 3:15; חֲפָצֶ֖ךָ Isaiah 58:13 —
1 delight ח ׳אבני Isaiah 54:12 delightful stones; ח ׳אֶרֶץ Malachi 3:12 delightsome land; ח ׳דִּבְּרֵי Ecclesiastes 12:10; so perhaps also ח ׳בִּגְדֵי Ezekiel 27:20 garments of delight, i.e. of beauty and luxury (Gr; חֹפֶשׁ ᵑ0 q. v.); with בְּ of persons Psalm 16:3; Ecclesiastes 5:3; Malachi 1:10; of things 1 Samuel 15:22; 18:25; Psalm 1:2; Job 21:21; Ecclesiastes 12:1; בּוֺ חֵפֶץ אֵין כְּלִי vessel wherein is no pleasure Jeremiah 22:28; 48:38; Hosea 8:8; כִּי לְשַׁדַּי הַחֵפֶץ Job 22:3 is it a pleasure to Shadday that ?
2 desire, longing מח ׳מנע דלים Job 31:16 withhold the poor from (their) desire; חֶפְצָם מְחוֺז the city of their desire Psalm 107:30; חפץ כל all (one's) desire 2 Samuel 23:5; 1 Kings 5:22; 1 Kings 5:23; 1 Kings 5:24; 1 Kings 9:11; 10:13 2 Chronicles 9:12; חפצים כל all things to be desired Proverbs 3:15; 8:11.
3 the good pleasure, will, purpose, of Yahweh Isaiah 44:28; 46:10; 48:14.
4 that in which one takes delight, his business (late), or matter (very late, compare in Mishna = thing) י ׳חֵפֶץ יִצְלַח בְּיָדוֺ the good pleasure (cause, business) of Yahweh will prosper in his hands Isaiah 53:10; ח ׳מצא 58:3, 13; חֲפָצֶךָ עֲשׂוֺת doing thy affairs 58:13 (see De on the passage); כַּמֶּיהָ בְּחֵפֶץ in the business of her hands Proverbs 31:13; לְכָלחֵֿפֶץ עֵתּ time for every matter, affair Ecclesiastes 3:1, 17; 8:6; עַלהַֿחֵפֶץ תִּתְּמַהּ אַלֿ marvel not at the matter 5:7.
Note. — חפץ is not used in any of its forms in E D2 H P of the Hexateuch.