1) to delight in, take pleasure in, desire, be pleased with 1a) (Qal) 1a1) of men 1a1a) to take pleasure in, delight in 1a1b) to delight, desire, be pleased to do 1a2) of God 1a2a) to delight in, have pleasure in 1a2b) to be pleased to do
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H2654 — חָפֵץ
cha.phets · to delight in · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 34:19 · חָפֵ֖ץThe young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.Numbers 14:8 · חָפֵ֥ץIf Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.Deuteronomy 21:14 · חָפַ֣צְתָּIt shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.Deuteronomy 25:7 · יַחְפֹּץ֙If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”Deuteronomy 25:8 · חָפַ֖צְתִּיThen the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, “I don’t want to take her;”Judges 13:23 · חָפֵ֨ץBut his wife said to him, “If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn’t have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.”Ruth 3:13 · יַחְפֹּ֧ץStay this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform for you the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman’s part. But if he will not do the part of a kinsman for you, then will I do the part of a kinsman for you, as Yahweh lives. Lie down until the morning.”1 Samuel 2:25 · חָפֵ֥ץIf one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against Yahweh, who shall entreat for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.1 Samuel 18:22 · חָפֵ֤ץSaul commanded his servants, “Talk with David secretly, and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you: now therefore be the king’s son-in-law.’”1 Samuel 19:1 · חָפֵ֥ץSaul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, delighted much in David.2 Samuel 15:26 · חָפַ֖צְתִּיbut if he say thus, ‘I have no delight in you;’ behold, here am I. Let him do to me as seems good to him.”2 Samuel 20:11 · חָפֵ֧ץThere stood by him one of Joab’s young men, and said, “He who favors Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab!”2 Samuel 22:20 · חָ֥פֵֽץHe also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.2 Samuel 24:3 · חָפֵ֖ץJoab said to the king, “Now may Yahweh your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”1 Kings 9:1 · חָפֵ֖ץIt happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Yahweh, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,1 Kings 10:9 · חָפֵ֣ץBlessed is Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore made he you king, to do justice and righteousness.”2 Chronicles 9:8 · חָפֵ֣ץBlessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on his throne, to be king for Yahweh your God: because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever, therefore made he you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.”Esther 2:14 · חָפֵ֥ץIn the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second women’s house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch, who kept the concubines. She came in to the king no more, unless the king delighted in her, and she was called by name.Esther 6:6 · חָפֵ֣ץ · יַחְפֹּ֥ץSo Haman came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?”Esther 6:7 · חָפֵ֥ץHaman said to the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honor,Esther 6:9 · חָפֵ֣ץ · חָפֵ֥ץLet the clothing and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man whom the king delights to honor with them, and have him ride on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!’”Esther 6:11 · חָפֵ֥ץThen Haman took the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and had him ride through the city square, and proclaimed before him, “Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!”Job 9:3 · יַ֭חְפֹּץIf he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.Job 13:3 · אֶחְפָּֽץ׃“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.Job 21:14 · חָפָֽצְנוּ׃They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.Job 33:32 · חָפַ֥צְתִּיIf you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you.Job 40:17 · יַחְפֹּ֣ץHe moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together.Psalm 18:19 · חָ֥פֵֽץHe brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.Psalm 22:8 · חָ֥פֵֽץ“He trusts in Yahweh; let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”Psalm 37:23 · יֶחְפָּֽץ׃A man’s goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.Psalm 40:6 · חָפַ֗צְתָּSacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.Psalm 40:8 · חָפָ֑צְתִּיI delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”Psalm 41:11 · חָפַ֣צְתָּBy this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.Psalm 51:6 · חָפַ֣צְתָּBehold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.Psalm 51:16 · תַחְפֹּ֣ץFor you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.Psalm 51:19 · תַּחְפֹּ֣ץThen you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.Psalm 68:30 · יֶחְפָּֽצוּ׃Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.Psalm 73:25 · חָפַ֥צְתִּיWhom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.Psalm 109:17 · חָפֵ֥ץYes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.Psalm 112:1 · חָפֵ֥ץPraise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.Psalm 115:3 · חָפֵ֣ץBut our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.Psalm 119:35 · חָפָֽצְתִּי׃Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.Psalm 135:6 · חָפֵ֥ץWhatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps;Psalm 147:10 · יֶחְפָּ֑ץHe doesn’t delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.Proverbs 18:2 · יַחְפֹּ֣ץA fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.Proverbs 21:1 · יַחְפֹּ֣ץThe king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.Ecclesiastes 8:3 · יַחְפֹּ֖ץDon’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,Song of Solomon 2:7 · שֶׁתֶּחְפָּֽץ׃ סI adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.Song of Solomon 3:5 · שֶׁתֶּחְפָּֽץ׃ סI adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.Song of Solomon 8:4 · שֶׁתֶּחְפָּֽץ׃ סI adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.Isaiah 1:11 · חָפָֽצְתִּי׃“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?,” says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.Isaiah 13:17 · יַחְפְּצוּ־Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.Isaiah 42:21 · חָפֵ֖ץIt pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.Isaiah 53:10 · חָפֵ֤ץYet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed. He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yahweh shall prosper in his hand.Isaiah 55:11 · חָפַ֔צְתִּיso shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do.Isaiah 56:4 · חָפָ֑צְתִּיFor thus says Yahweh, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant:Isaiah 58:2 · יֶחְפָּצ֑וּן · יֶחְפָּצֽוּן׃Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.Isaiah 62:4 · חָפֵ֤ץYou shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married.Isaiah 65:12 · חָפַ֖צְתִּיI will destine you to the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you didn’t answer; when I spoke, you didn’t listen; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”Isaiah 66:3 · חָפֵֽצָה׃He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:Isaiah 66:4 · חָפַ֖צְתִּיI also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they didn’t listen; but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”Jeremiah 6:10 · יַחְפְּצוּ־To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, the word of Yahweh has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.Jeremiah 9:24 · חָפַ֖צְתִּיbut let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says Yahweh.Jeremiah 42:22 · חֲפַצְתֶּ֔םNow therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where you desire to go to live there.Hosea 6:6 · חָפַ֖צְתִּיFor I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.Jonah 1:14 · חָפַ֖צְתָּTherefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, “We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, don’t let us die for this man’s life, and don’t lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you.”Malachi 2:17 · חָפֵ֔ץYou have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’