Strong's #2530: chamad (pronounced khaw-mad')

a primitive root; to delight in:--beauty, greatly beloved, covet, delectable thing, (X great) delight, desire, goodly, lust, (be) pleasant (thing), precious (thing).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

châmad

1) to desire, covet, take pleasure in, delight in (verb)

1a) (Qal) to desire

1b) (Niphal) to be desirable

1c) (Piel) to delight greatly, desire greatly

2) desirableness, preciousness (noun feminine)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 30 times:

 

Genesis 2:9: "to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree"
Genesis 3:6: "was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit"
Genesis 27:15: "And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son"
Exodus 20:17: "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's"
Exodus 20:17: "thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's nor his manservant, nor his maidservant,"
Exodus 34:24: "thy borders: shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up"
Deuteronomy 5:21: "Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbor's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbor's"
Deuteronomy 7:25: "shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver that is on them, nor take"
Joshua 7:21: "of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth"
2 Chronicles 20:25: "both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away:"
Ezra 8:27: "vessels copper, precious as gold."
Job 20:20: "in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired."
Psalms 19:10: " More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey"
Psalms 39:11: "man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away surely every"
Psalms 68:16: "hills? this is the hill which God desireth in; yea, the LORD will dwell"
Proverbs 1:22: "ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, hate"
Proverbs 6:25: " Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids."
Proverbs 12:12: "The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth"
Proverbs 21:20: "There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man"
Song of Solomon 2:3: "the sons. under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste."
Isaiah 1:29: "they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens"
Isaiah 44:9: "a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; are their own witnesses;"
Isaiah 53:2: "comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire"
Daniel 9:23: "to show thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision."
Daniel 10:3: "I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh"
Daniel 10:11: "unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words I"
Daniel 10:19: "And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong,"
Daniel 11:38: "and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things."
Daniel 11:43: "of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps."
Micah 2:2: " And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man"