Strong’s H2531 · Hebrew
חֶמֶד
chemed · kheh'-med
Origin from חָמַד (H2530);
Meaning delight
In the King James Version desirable, pleasant.
In 5 verses of the King James Version
- Isaiah 32:12They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
- Ezekiel 23:6Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
- Ezekiel 23:12She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
- Ezekiel 23:23The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
- Amos 5:11Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.