H2656 · חֵפֶץ
chêphets · khay'-fets · pleasure, desire
H2656 (chêphets, pronounced khay'-fets) is the Hebrew word חֵפֶץ in Strong’s dictionary: pleasure. It appears 39 times in 38 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- חֵפֶץ (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- chêphets
- Pronunciation
- khay'-fets
- Derivation
- from H2654 (חָפֵץ);
- Definition
- pleasure; hence (abstractly) desire; concretely, a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind)
- Rendered in the KJV
- acceptable, delight(-some), desire, things desired, matter, pleasant(-ure), purpose, willingly.
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
39 occurrences in 38 verses (38 with English words of their own, 1 in the original with no English word of their own).
How the BSB renders it
- “you desire” ×3
- “as you please” ×2
- “desire” ×2
- “pleasure” ×2
- “purpose” ×2
- “she desired” ×2
- “Does it delight” ×1
- “His desire” ×1
By book
1 Samuel 2 · 2 Samuel 1 · 1 Kings 5 · 2 Chronicles 1 · Job 3 · Psalms 4 · Proverbs 3 · Ecclesiastes 7 · Isaiah 7 · Jeremiah 2 · Hosea 1 · Malachi 2
First 30 of 38 verses
- 1 Samuel 15:22
- 1 Samuel 18:25
- 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 21:21
- Job 22:3
- Job 31:16
- Psalms 1:2
- Psalms 16:3
- Psalms 107:30
- Psalms 111:2
- Proverbs 3:15
- Proverbs 8:11
- Proverbs 31:13
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
- Ecclesiastes 3:17
- Ecclesiastes 5:4
- Ecclesiastes 5:8
- Ecclesiastes 8:6
- Ecclesiastes 12:1
- Ecclesiastes 12:10
- Isaiah 44:28
- Isaiah 46:10
- Isaiah 48:14
- Isaiah 53:10
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H2656.