חָפֵץ
cha.phets
to delight in
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Occurrences in Scripture
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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.
Numbers 14:8If 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.
Deuteronomy 21:14It 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.
Deuteronomy 25:7If 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.”
Deuteronomy 25:8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her,”
Judges 13:23But 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.”
Ruth 3:13Stay 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.”
1 Samuel 2:25If 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.
1 Samuel 18:22Saul 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.’ ”
1 Samuel 19:1Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David.
2 Samuel 15:26but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you;’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him.”
2 Samuel 20:11One of Joab’s young men stood by him, and said, “He who favors Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab!”
2 Samuel 22:20He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
2 Samuel 24:3Joab 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?”
1 Kings 9:1When Solomon had finished the building of Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,
1 Kings 10:9Blessed 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.”
2 Chronicles 9:8Blessed 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.”
Esther 6:9Let 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!’ ”
Esther 6:9Let 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!’ ”
Esther 2:14In 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.
Esther 6:6So 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?”
Esther 6:6So 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?”
Esther 6:7Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honor,
Esther 6:11Then 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!”
Job 9:3If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
Job 13:3“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
Job 21:14They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
Job 33:32If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you.
Psalms 18:19He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
Psalms 22:8“He trusts in Yahweh. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”
Psalms 37:23A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.
Psalms 40:6Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
Psalms 40:8I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
Psalms 41:11By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.
Psalms 51:6Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
Psalms 51:16For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
Psalms 51:19Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.
Psalms 68:30Rebuke 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.
Psalms 73:25Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.
Psalms 109:17Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.
Psalms 112:1Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.
Psalms 115:3But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.
Psalms 119:35Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.
Psalms 135:6Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.
Psalms 147:10He doesn’t delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.
Proverbs 18:2A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.
Proverbs 21:1The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.
Ecclesiastes 8:3Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,
Song of Solomon 2:7I 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.
Song of Solomon 3:5I 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.