חָפֵץ

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

• to delight in H2654A 73
• to sway H2654B 1

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire; [idiom] any at all, (have, take) delight, desire, favour, like, move, be (well) pleased, have pleasure, will, would.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Every occurrence

1. Esther 2:14 חָפֵ֥ץ cha.Fetz · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

   In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, who kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and she were called by name.

2. Esther 6:6 חָפֵ֣ץ cha.Fetz · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

   So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honor? Now Haman said in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honor more than to myself?

3. Esther 6:6 יַחְפֹּ֥ץ yach.Potz · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

   So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honor? Now Haman said in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honor more than to myself?

4. Esther 6:7 חָפֵ֥ץ cha.Fetz · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

   And Haman said unto the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honor,

5. Esther 6:9 חָפֵ֣ץ cha.Fetz · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

   and let the apparel and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man therewith whom the king delighteth to honor, and cause him to ride on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honor.

6. Esther 6:9 חָפֵ֥ץ cha.Fetz · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

   and let the apparel and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man therewith whom the king delighteth to honor, and cause him to ride on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honor.

7. Esther 6:11 חָפֵ֥ץ cha.Fetz · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

   Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and caused him to ride through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honor.

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.