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. Song of Solomon 2:7 שֶׁתֶּחְפָּֽץ׃ ס she.tech.Patz · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.

  2. Song of Solomon 3:5 שֶׁתֶּחְפָּֽץ׃ ס she.tech.Patz · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.

  3. Song of Solomon 8:4 שֶׁתֶּחְפָּֽץ׃ ס she.tech.Patz · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.

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