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# חָפֵץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2655

**delighting in** — used 13 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

delighting in [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2655/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָפֵץ²: adj. delighting in, having pleasure in [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2655/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. verb. delighting in, having pleasure in;—ח׳ ψ 5:5 + 4 times; pl. חֲפֵצִים Mal 3:1 Ne 1:11; cstr. חֲפֵצֵי ψ 35:27 + 2 times; sf. חֶפְצֵיהֶם ψ 111:2; f. חֲפֵצָ֑ה 1 Ch 28:9;— of man, c. acc. ψ 34:13; 35:27 Mal 3:1; c. inf. Ne 1:11; abs. הֶחָפֵץ whosoever would 1 K 13:33; אם חפץ אתה if thou pleasest 1 K 21:6; נֶפֶשׁ חֲפֵצָה willing soul 1 Ch 28:9; pl. cstr. before nouns abs. ψ 35:22; 40:15 = 70:3; דְּרוּשִׁים לְכָל־חֶפְצֵיהֶם studied of all who take pleasure in them ψ 111:2. of God, לֹא אֵל־חָפֵץ רֶשַׁע אַתָּה thou art not a God taking pleasure in wickedness ψ 5:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: desiring (4); the \[people\] desirous (3); \[are\] delighting (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 111:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.111.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.111.2/#tree)

גְּ֭דֹלִים מַעֲשֵׂ֣י יְהוָ֑ה דְּ֝רוּשִׁ֗ים לְכָל־חֶפְצֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* \[are\].great the.works of.Yahweh \[they.are\].studied by all \[those\].delighting in.them

*JPS 1917:* The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have delight therein.

[Psalms 5:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.5.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.5.5/#tree)

כִּ֤י ׀ לֹ֤א אֵֽל־חָפֵ֘ץ רֶ֥שַׁע ׀ אָ֑תָּה לֹ֖א יְגֻרְךָ֣ רָֽע׃

*Word for word:* (dm) not \[are\].a.God desiring wickedness you not it sojourns.with.you evil

*JPS 1917:* For Thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; evil shall not sojourn with Thee.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2655.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2655/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).