- Original: חפץ
- Transliteration: Chephets
- Phonetic: khay'-fets
- Definition:
1. delight, pleasure
a. delight
b. desire, longing
c. the good pleasure
d. that in which one takes delight
- Origin: from
H2654
- TWOT entry: 712b
- Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine
- Strong's: From
H2654 ; 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.
Total KJV Occurrences: 39
• acceptable, 1
Ecclesiastes 12:10
• delight, 3
1 Samuel 15:22;
Psalm 1:2;
Psalm 16:3
• delightful, 1
Malachi 3:12
• desire, 9
2 Samuel 23:5;
1 Kings 5:8;
1 Kings 5:9;
1 Kings 5:10;
1 Kings 9:11;
1 Kings 10:13;
2 Chronicles 9:12;
Job 31:16;
Proverbs 3:15
• desired, 2
Psalm 107:30;
Proverbs 8:11
• desireth, 1
1 Samuel 18:25
• matter, 1
Ecclesiastes 5:8
• pleasant, 1
Isaiah 54:12
• pleasure, 16
Job 21:21;
Job 22:3;
Psalm 111:2;
Ecclesiastes 5:4;
Ecclesiastes 12:1;
Isaiah 44:28;
Isaiah 46:10;
Isaiah 48:14;
Isaiah 53:10;
Isaiah 58:3;
Isaiah 58:13(2);
Jeremiah 22:28;
Jeremiah 48:38;
Hosea 8:8;
Malachi 1:10
• purpose, 3
Ecclesiastes 3:1;
Ecclesiastes 3:17;
Ecclesiastes 8:6
• willingly, 1
Proverbs 31:13