חָפֵץ
cha.phets (H2654A)
to delight in
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# Analysis of חָפֵץ (chaphets): "to delight in" The Hebrew verb חָפֵץ carries the fundamental meaning of "to delight in" or "to find pleasure in," appearing 73 times throughout the biblical text. This frequency suggests it was a common and important term for expressing preference and emotional satisfaction. The word functions to describe a subject's positive inclination toward something—whether toward an object, action, or person—indicating not mere tolerance but genuine pleasure or satisfaction. The range of this term extends across various contexts within biblical literature. Its 73 occurrences indicate it was used across multiple biblical books and genres to capture the nuanced idea of what brings someone joy or satisfaction. The verb describes emotional and volitional responses, making it useful for depicting both divine and human preferences. Whether referring to what God delights in or what individuals choose to pursue, the word maintains its essential semantic core: the experience of finding something pleasing or desirable. This term carries significance as a window into biblical concepts of preference, value, and satisfaction. By using חָפֵץ rather than more neutral verbs, biblical writers emphasized the affective dimension of choice—that certain things brought genuine delight rather than mere compliance or obligation. The word's frequency and distribution across the biblical corpus underscores how central the concept of delighting in something was to expressing both theological and human experience
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The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.
If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land which flows with milk and honey.
It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she desires; but you shall not sell her at all for money. You shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.
If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her,”
But his wife said to him, “If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn’t have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, and he wouldn’t have shown us all these things, nor would he have told us such things as these at this time.”
Stay this night, and in the morning, if he will perform for you the part of a kinsman, good. Let him do the kinsman’s duty. But if he will not do the duty of a kinsman for you, then I will do the duty of a kinsman for you, as Yahweh lives. Lie down until the morning.”
If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.
Saul commanded his servants, “Talk with David secretly, and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore be the king’s son-in-law.’ ”
Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David.
but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you;’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him.”
One of Joab’s young men stood by him, and said, “He who favors Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab!”
He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
Joab said to the king, “Now may Yahweh your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”
When Solomon had finished the building of Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,
Blessed is Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness.”
Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on his throne, to be king for Yahweh your God; because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever. Therefore he made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.”
In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second women’s house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch, who kept the concubines. She came in to the king no more, unless the king delighted in her, and she was called by name.
So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?”
Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honor,
Let the clothing and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man whom the king delights to honor with them, and have him ride on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!’ ”
Then Haman took the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and had him ride through the city square, and proclaimed before him, “Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!”
If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you.
He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
“He trusts in Yahweh. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”
Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.
Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.
Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.
Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.
Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.
Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.
Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.
Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.
He doesn’t delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.
A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.
The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.
Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up nor awaken love, until it so desires.
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.
“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
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