Strong’s H2657 · Hebrew
חֶפְצִי בָּהּ
Chephtsîy bâhh · khef-tsee'baw
Origin from חֵפֶץ (H2656) with suffixes; my delight (is) in her;
Meaning Cheptsi-bah, a fanciful name for Palestine
In the King James Version Hephzi-bah.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- 2 Kings 21:1Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hephzibah.
- Isaiah 62:4Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
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.