חָפֵץ

cha.phets · to delight in

Hebrew · Strong's H2654 · Verb · Sounds like: khaw-fates' · 74 occurrences

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)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
חָפֵץ vb. delight in
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
[חָפַץ] vb. bend down—only Qal Jb 40:17

Every occurrence

  1. Judges 13:23 חָפֵ֨ץ cha.Fetz · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    But his wife said unto him, If Jehovah were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt-offering and a meal-offering at our hand, neither would he have showed us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.

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