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. Malachi 2:17 חָפֵ֔ץ cha.Fetz · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? In that ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of Jehovah, and he delighteth in them; or where is the God of justice?

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