Strong's #2532: chemdah (pronounced khem-daw')

feminine of 2531; delight:--desire, goodly, pleasant, precious.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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chemdâh

1) desire, that which is desirable (noun feminine)

2) pleasant, precious (adjective)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Relation: from H2531

Usage:

This word is used 16 times:

 

1 Samuel 9:20: "they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's"
2 Chronicles 21:20: "years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried of David, but not"
2 Chronicles 32:27: "and for spices, and for all manner of pleasant jewels;"
2 Chronicles 36:10: "and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made"
Psalms 106:24: "Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:"
Isaiah 2:16: "of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures."
Jeremiah 3:19: "shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts"
Jeremiah 12:10: "they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate"
Jeremiah 25:34: "and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant"
Ezekiel 26:12: "and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber"
Daniel 11:8: "with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he"
Daniel 11:37: "Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any"
Hosea 13:15: "he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels."
Nahum 2:9: "of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture."
Haggai 2:7: "all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill"
Zechariah 7:14: "them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate."