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The meaning of Delight in the Bible
(From International Standard Bible Encyclopedia)

de-lit' (verb, chaphets, ratsah, sha'a'; sunedomai): "To delight" is most frequently expressed by chaphets, which means originally "to bend" (compare Job 40:17, "He moveth his tail"), hence, "to incline to," "take pleasure in." It is used of God's pleasure in His people (Numbers 14:8; II Samuel 22:20; Psalms 18:19, etc.), and in righteousness, etc. (Isaiah 66:4; Jeremiah 9:24; Micah 7:18, etc.), also of man's delight in God and His will (Psalms 40:8; Psalms 73:25; the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American), "There is none upon earth that I desire besides thee"), and in other objects (Genesis 34:19; I Samuel 18:22; Esther 2:14; Isaiah 66:3); sha'a', "to stroke," "caress," "be fond of," occurs in Psalms 94:19, "Thy comforts delight my soul"; Psalms 119:16, Psalms 119:47, Psalms 119:70, "I will delight myself in thy statutes." Similarly, Paul says (Romans 7:22), "I delight (sunedomai) in (margin, the Revised Version (British and American) "Greek with") the law of God after the inward man." This is the only occurrence of the word in the New Testament.

"To delight one's self" (in the Lord) is represented chiefly by 'anagh (Job 22:26; Job 27:10; Psalms 37:4, Psalms 37:11; Isaiah 58:14).

Delight (noun), chiefly chephets (I Samuel 15:22; Psalms 1:2; Psalms 16:3), ratson (Proverbs 11:1, Proverbs 11:20; Proverbs 12:22; Proverbs 15:8), sha'ashu'im (Psalms 119:24, Psalms 119:77, Psalms 119:92, Psalms 119:143, Psalms 119:174; Proverbs 8:30-31). the Revised Version (British and American) has "delight" for "desire" (Nehemiah 1:11; Psalms 22:8; Psalms 51:16), for "observe," different reading (Proverbs 23:26), "no delight in" for "smell in" (Amos 5:21), "delightest in me" for "favorest me" (Psalms 41:11), "his delight shall be in" (m "Hebrew 'scent' ") for "of quick understanding" (Isaiah 11:3).

The element of joy, of delight in God and His law and will, in the Hebrew religion is noteworthy as being something which we are apt to fall beneath even in the clearer light of Christianity.

W. L. Walker


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