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Strong's #2656 - חֵפֶץ
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- delight, pleasure
- delight
- desire, longing
- the good pleasure
- that in which one takes delight
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2191) yph (ההפתס HhPTs) AC: Delight CO: ? AB: ?: [from: ph- hiding a treasure]
V) yph (ההפתס HhPTs) - Delight: To desire something out of pleasure or necessity. KJV (75): (vf: Paal) delight, please, desire, will, pleasure, favour, like, move, would - Strongs: H2654 (חָפֵץ)
Nm) yph (ההפתס HhPTs) - Delight: KJV (50): desire, pleasure, would, please, willing, favour, wish, delight - Strongs: H2655 (חָפֵץ), H2656 (חֵפֶץ)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 delight ׳אבני ח Isaiah 54:12 delightful stones; ׳אֶרֶץ ח Malachi 3:12 delightsome land; ׳דִּבְּרֵי ח Ecclesiastes 12:10; so perhaps also ׳בִּגְדֵי ח Ezekiel 27:20 garments of delight, i.e. of beauty and luxury (Gr; ᵑ0חֹפֶשׁ q. v.); with בְּ of persons Psalm 16:3; Ecclesiastes 5:3; Malachi 1:10; of things 1 Samuel 15:22; 1 Samuel 18:25; Psalm 1:2; Job 21:21; Ecclesiastes 12:1; כְּלִיאֵין חֵפֶץ בּוֺ vessel wherein is no pleasure Jeremiah 22:28; Jeremiah 48:38; Hosea 8:8; הַחֵפֶץ לְשַׁדַּי כִּי Job 22:3 is it a pleasure to Shadday that ?
2 desire, longing דלים׳מנע מח Job 31:16 withhold the poor from ( their) desire; מְחוֺז חֶפְצָם the city of their desire Psalm 107:30; כל חפץ all ( one's) desire 2 Samuel 23:5; 1 Kings 5:22; 1 Kings 5:23; 1 Kings 5:24; 1 Kings 9:11; 1 Kings 10:13 2 Chronicles 9:12; כל חפצים all things to be desired Proverbs 3:15; Proverbs 8:11.
3 the good pleasure, will, purpose, of Yahweh Isaiah 44:28; Isaiah 46:10; Isaiah 48:14.
4 that in which one takes delight, his business (late), or matter (very late, compare in Mishna = thing) בְּיָדוֺ יִצְלַח׳חֵפֶץ י the good pleasure ( cause, business) of Yahweh will prosper in his hands Isaiah 53:10; ׳מצא ח Isaiah 58:3,13; עֲשׂוֺת חֲפָצֶךָ doing thy affairs Isaiah 58:13 (see De on the passage); בְּחֵפֶץ כַּמֶּיהָ in the business of her hands Proverbs 31:13; עֵתּ לְכָלחֵֿפֶץ time for every matter, affair Ecclesiastes 3:1,17; Ecclesiastes 8:6; אַלֿתִּתְּמַהּ עַלהַֿחֵפֶץ marvel not at the matter Ecclesiastes 5:7.
Note. — חפץ is not used in any of its forms in E D2 H P of the Hexateuch.
חֵפֶץ m. with suff. חֶפְצִי [pl. חֲפָצִים]
(1) delight. 1 Samuel 15:22; Psalms 1:2, 16:3 1 Kings 10:13, כָּל־חֶפְצָהּ “every thing in which she delighted.” דִּבְרֵי חֵפֶץ pleasant, acceptable words, Ecclesiastes 12:10, 5:3, אֵין חֵפֶץ בַּכְּסִילִים “(God) has no pleasure in fools.”
(2) desire, will, Job 31:16.
(3) something precious (comp. חֶמֶד). אַבְנֵי־חֵפֶץ precious stones, Isaiah 54:12 plural חֲפָצִים precious things, Proverbs 3:15, 8:11.
(4) pursuit, ardour, hence affair, matter, LXX. πρᾶγμα Ecclesiastes 3:1, וְעֵת לְכָל־חֵפֶץ “and its own time for every thing,” i.e. all things are fleeting and unenduring, nothing is stable and everlasting. 5:7, אַל־תִּתְמַהּ עַל הַחֶפֶץ “marvel not at this thing.” The origin of this signification may be seen from passages such as these, Isaiah 53:10, חֵפֶץ יְהֹוָה בְּיָדוֹ יִצְלַח “the affairs of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand,” Isaiah 44:28, 58:3, 13 Isaiah 58:13; Job 21:21, 22:3. (Similar to this is the Syriac ܨܒܘܽ a thing, an affair, from ܨܒܐܳ i.q. חָפֵץ to will, desire.)