King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H2657
Transliteration: Chephtsi-bah
Phonetic Spelling: (khef-tsee'baw)
Part of Speech: Proper Name Feminine
Short Definition: "my delight is in her", a name for Zion, also the mother of King Manasseh
Meaning: Hephzibah -- "my delight is in her", a name for Zion, also the mother of King Manasseh
Word Summary
Chephtsi-bah: "my delight is in her", a name for Zion, also the mother of King Manasseh
Original Word: חֶפְּצִי בָּהּTransliteration: Chephtsi-bah
Phonetic Spelling: (khef-tsee'baw)
Part of Speech: Proper Name Feminine
Short Definition: "my delight is in her", a name for Zion, also the mother of King Manasseh
Meaning: Hephzibah -- "my delight is in her", a name for Zion, also the mother of King Manasseh
Strong's Concordance
Hephzi-bah From chephets with suffixes; my delight (is) in her; Cheptsi-bah, a fanciful name for Palestine -- Hephzi-bah.
see HEBREW chephets
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2657. Chephtsi
-bah חֶפְצִיבָֿהּ proper name, feminine (my delight is in her; compare Phoenician חפצבעל) —
1 mother of king Manasseh 2 Kings 21:1.
2 figurative name of Zion Isaiah 62:4, here explained by בָּךְ יהוה חפץ כִּי for Yahweh delighteth in thee.