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Strong’s H2654 · Hebrew

חָפֵץ

châphêts · khaw-fates'

Origin a primitive root;

Meaning properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire

In the King James Version [idiom] any at all, (have, take) delight, desire, favour, like, move, be (well) pleased, have pleasure, will, would.

In 71 verses of the King James Version

1–50 of 71

  1. Genesis 34:19And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.
  2. Numbers 14:8If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
  3. Deuteronomy 21:14And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.
  4. Deuteronomy 25:7And if the man like not to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.
  5. Deuteronomy 25:8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;
  6. Judges 13:23But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.
  7. Ruth 3:13Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman’s part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as the LORD liveth: lie down until the morning.
  8. 1 Samuel 2:25If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD would slay them.
  9. 1 Samuel 18:22And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king’s son in law.
  10. 1 Samuel 19:2But Jonathan Saul’s son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:
  11. 2 Samuel 15:26But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.
  12. 2 Samuel 20:11And one of Joab’s men stood by him, and said, He that favoureth Joab, and he that is for David, let him go after Joab.
  13. 2 Samuel 22:20He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
  14. 2 Samuel 24:3And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?
  15. 1 Kings 9:1And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,
  16. 1 Kings 10:9Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.
  17. 2 Chronicles 9:8Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.
  18. Esther 2:14In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.
  19. Esther 6:6So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?
  20. Esther 6:7And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,
  21. Esther 6:9And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.
  22. Esther 6:11Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.
  23. Job 9:3If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
  24. Job 13:3Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
  25. Job 21:14Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
  26. Job 33:32If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.
  27. Job 40:17He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
  28. Psalms 18:19He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
  29. Psalms 22:8He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
  30. Psalms 37:23The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
  31. Psalms 40:6Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
  32. Psalms 40:8I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
  33. Psalms 41:11By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
  34. Psalms 51:6Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
  35. Psalms 51:16For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
  36. Psalms 51:19Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
  37. Psalms 68:30Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.
  38. Psalms 73:25Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
  39. Psalms 109:17As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
  40. Psalms 112:1Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
  41. Psalms 115:3But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.
  42. Psalms 119:35Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
  43. Psalms 135:6Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
  44. Psalms 147:10He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.
  45. Proverbs 18:2A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
  46. Proverbs 21:1The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
  47. Ecclesiastes 8:3Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
  48. Song of Songs 2:7I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
  49. Song of Songs 3:5I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
  50. Song of Songs 8:4I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

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.

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