Hebrew verb · H2654
חָפֵץ
chaphetskhaw-fates'
to delight in; to sway
74 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: châphêts
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2654is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 21 of 39Old Testament books
- 37spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2654
properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire
The King James renders it: [idiom] any at all, (have, take) delight, desire, favour, like, move, be (well) pleased, have pleasure, will, would.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chaphets is rendered "to delight in; to sway". It stands 74 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-one books.
- Seventeen of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to delight in".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 34:19The young man, who was the most respected of all his father’s household, did not hesitate to fulfill this request, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter.
- The Greek text spells it thirty-seven different ways.
The first use
The young man, who was the most respected of all his father’s household, did not hesitate to fulfill this request, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter.
Genesis 34:19חָפֵ֖ץ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: to delight in, and to sway.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to delight inStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 34:19The young man, who was the most respected of all his father’s household… |
| to swayStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- he delights15
- he delighted7
- I desire6
- he desires3
- I delight3
- I desired3
- I take pleasure3
- that it will please3
- you desire3
- he desired2
- he will desire2
- they delight2
and 20 more, 74 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 74, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
37 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- חָפֵ֥ץ10
- חָפַ֖צְתִּי6
- חָפֵ֣ץ5
- חָפֵ֖ץ4
- אֶחְפֹּץ֙3
- חָ֥פֵֽץ3
- חָפֵ֤ץ3
- חָפַ֣צְתָּ3
- יַחְפֹּ֣ץ3
- שֶׁתֶּחְפָּֽץ׃ ס3
- חָפַ֥צְתִּי2
- חָפָ֑צְתִּי2
and 25 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular28HVqp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular13HVqp1cs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular10HVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular5HVqp2ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular4HVqi1cs
- relative particle (“who / which”) + verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular3HTr/Vqi3fs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural3HVqi3mp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVqi2ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nun2HVqi3mp/Sn
- question particle + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolute1HTi/Vqaa
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common plural1HVqp1cp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVqp2mp
Genesis
one use
The young man, who was the most respected of all his father’s household, did not hesitate to fulfill this request, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter.
- חָפֵ֖ץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he delighted
Numbers
one use
If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.
- חָפֵ֥ץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he delights
Deuteronomy
three uses
And if you are not pleased with her, you are to let her go wherever she wishes. But you must not sell her for money or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.
- חָפַ֣צְתָּchafatztaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you delight
But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.”
- יַחְפֹּץ֙yachpotzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will desire
Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, “I do not want to marry her,”
- חָפַ֖צְתִּיchafatztiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I desire
Judges
one use
But his wife replied, “If the LORD had intended to kill us, He would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things or spoken to us this way.”
- חָפֵ֨ץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had desired
Ruth
one use
Stay here tonight, and in the morning, if he wants to redeem you, good. Let him redeem you. But if he does not want to redeem you, as surely as the LORD lives, I will. Now lie here until morning.”
- יַחְפֹּ֧ץyachpotzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be willing
1 Samuel
three uses
If a man sins against another man, God can intercede for him; but if a man sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to their father, since the LORD intended to put them to death.
- חָפֵ֥ץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he desired
Then Saul ordered his servants, “Speak to David privately and tell him, ‘Behold, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become his son-in-law.’”
- חָפֵ֤ץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he delights
Then Saul ordered his son Jonathan and all his servants to kill David. But Jonathan delighted greatly in David,
- חָפֵ֥ץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he delighted
2 Samuel
four uses
But if He should say, ‘I do not delight in you,’ then here I am; let Him do to me whatever seems good to Him.”
- חָפַ֖צְתִּיchafatztiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I delight
One of Joab’s young men stood near Amasa and said, “Whoever favors Joab, and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab!”
- חָפֵ֧ץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he delights
He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.
- חָ֥פֵֽץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he delighted
But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”
- חָפֵ֖ץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: does he delight
1 Kings
two uses
Now when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had desired to do,
- חָפֵ֖ץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he delighted
Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD’s eternal love for Israel, He has made you king to carry out justice and righteousness.”
- חָפֵ֣ץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he delights
2 Chronicles
one use
Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you to set you on His throne to be king for the LORD your God. Because your God loved Israel enough to establish them forever, He has made you king over them to carry out justice and righteousness.”
- חָפֵ֣ץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has delighted
Esther
seven uses
She would go there in the evening, and in the morning she would return to a second harem under the care of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he delighted in her and summoned her by name.
- חָפֵ֥ץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he delighted
Haman entered, and the king asked him, “What should be done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Whom would the king be delighted to honor more than me?”
- חָפֵ֣ץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he delights
- יַחְפֹּ֥ץyachpotzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will he delight
And Haman told the king, “For the man whom the king is delighted to honor,
- חָפֵ֥ץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he delights
Let the robe and the horse be entrusted to one of the king’s most noble princes. Let them array the man the king wants to honor and parade him on the horse through the city square, proclaiming before him, ‘This is what is done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor!’”
- חָפֵ֣ץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he delights
- חָפֵ֥ץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he delights
So Haman took the robe and the horse, arrayed Mordecai, and paraded him through the city square, crying out before him, “This is what is done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor!”
- חָפֵ֥ץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he delights
Job
five uses
If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
- יַ֭חְפֹּץyachpotzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: someone desires
Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.
- אֶחְפָּֽץ׃ʾechpatzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I desire
Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
- חָפָֽצְנוּ׃chafatzenuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we desire
But if you have something to say, answer me; speak up, for I would like to vindicate you.
- חָפַ֥צְתִּיchafatztiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I desire
His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.
- יַחְפֹּ֣ץyachpotzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it stiffens
Psalms
seventeen uses
He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.
- חָ֥פֵֽץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he delighted
“He trusts in the LORD, let the LORD deliver him; let the LORD rescue him, since He delights in him.”
- חָ֥פֵֽץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he delights
The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD who takes delight in his journey.
- יֶחְפָּֽץ׃yechpatzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he delights in
Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.
- חָפַ֗צְתָּchafatztaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you desired
I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
- חָפָ֑צְתִּיchafatzetiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I desire
By this I know that You delight in me, for my enemy does not triumph over me.
- חָפַ֣צְתָּchafatztaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you delight
Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
- חָפַ֣צְתָּchafatztaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you desire
For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.
- תַחְפֹּ֣ץtachpotzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you desire
Then You will delight in righteous sacrifices, in whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on Your altar.
- תַּחְפֹּ֣ץtachpotzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will delight in
Rebuke the beast in the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations, until it submits, bringing bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.
- יֶחְפָּֽצוּ׃yechpatzuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they delight in
Whom have I in heaven but You? And on earth I desire no one besides You.
- חָפַ֥צְתִּיchafatztiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I take pleasure
The cursing that he loved, may it fall on him; the blessing in which he refused to delight, may it be far from him.
- חָפֵ֥ץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he delighted
Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
- חָפֵ֥ץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he delights
Our God is in heaven; He does as He pleases.
- חָפֵ֣ץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he desires
Direct me in the path of Your commandments, for there I find delight.
- חָפָֽצְתִּי׃chafatzetiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I delight
The LORD does all that pleases Him in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and in all their depths.
- חָפֵ֥ץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he desires
He does not delight in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legpower of the man.
- יֶחְפָּ֑ץyechpatzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he delights
Proverbs
two uses
A fool does not delight in understanding, but only in airing his opinions.
- יַחְפֹּ֣ץyachpotzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he delights
The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.
- יַחְפֹּ֣ץyachpotzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he desires
Ecclesiastes
one use
Do not hasten to leave his presence, and do not persist in a bad cause, for he will do whatever he pleases.
- יַחְפֹּ֖ץyachpotzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will desire
Song of Solomon
three uses
O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.
- שֶׁתֶּחְפָּֽץ׃ סshetechpatzrelative particle (“who / which”) + verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: that it will please
O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.
- שֶׁתֶּחְפָּֽץ׃ סshetechpatzrelative particle (“who / which”) + verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: that it will please
O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.
- שֶׁתֶּחְפָּֽץ׃ סshetechpatzrelative particle (“who / which”) + verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: that it will please
Isaiah
twelve uses
“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
- חָפָֽצְתִּי׃chafatzetiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I am pleased
Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.
- יַחְפְּצוּ־yachpetzu-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they delight
The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.
- חָפֵ֖ץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was pleased
Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
- חָפֵ֤ץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he desired
so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.
- חָפַ֔צְתִּיchafatztiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I desired
For this is what the LORD says: “To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, who choose what pleases Me and hold fast to My covenant—
- חָפָ֑צְתִּיchafatzetiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I desire
For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
- יֶחְפָּצ֑וּןyechpatzunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they desire
- יֶחְפָּצֽוּן׃yechpatzunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they desire
No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride.
- חָפֵ֤ץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he delights
I will destine you for the sword, and you will all kneel down to be slaughtered, because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not listen; you did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
- חָפַ֖צְתִּיchafatztiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I desired
Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s blood; whoever offers frankincense is like one who blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways and delighted in their abominations.
- חָפֵֽצָה׃chafetzahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has delighted
So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
- חָפַ֖צְתִּיchafatztiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I desired
Jeremiah
three uses
To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.
- יַחְפְּצוּ־yachpetzu-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they delight
But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.
- חָפַ֖צְתִּיchafatztiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I delight
Now therefore, know for sure that by sword and famine and plague you will die in the place where you desire to go to reside.”
- חֲפַצְתֶּ֔םchafatztemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you desire
Ezekiel
four uses
Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Lord GOD. Wouldn’t I prefer that he turn from his ways and live?
- הֶחָפֹ֤ץhechafotzquestion particle + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: ¿ really to take pleasure
- אֶחְפֹּץ֙ʾechpotzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: do I take pleasure in
For I take no pleasure in anyone’s death, declares the Lord GOD. So repent and live!
- אֶחְפֹּץ֙ʾechpotzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I take pleasure
Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’
- אֶחְפֹּץ֙ʾechpotzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I take pleasure
Hosea
one use
For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
- חָפַ֖צְתִּיchafatztiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I desire
Jonah
one use
So they cried out to the LORD: “Please, O LORD, do not let us perish on account of this man’s life! Do not charge us with innocent blood! For You, O LORD, have done as You pleased.”
- חָפַ֖צְתָּchafatztaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you pleased
Malachi
one use
You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”
- חָפֵ֔ץchafetzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he delights
The letters
Gematria 178· 988 mispar gadol
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