Strong's #2656: chephets (pronounced khay'-fets)

from 2654; pleasure; hence (abstractly) desire; concretely, a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind):--acceptable, delight(-some), desire, things desired, matter, pleasant(-ure), purpose, willingly.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

chêphets

1) delight, pleasure

1a) delight

1b) desire, longing

1c) the good pleasure

1d) that in which one takes delight

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H2654

Usage:

This word is used 39 times:

 

1 Samuel 15:22: "And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice"
1 Samuel 18:25: "to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but a hundred"
2 Samuel 23:5: "this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow."
1 Kings 5:8: "will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir."
1 Kings 5:9: "shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household."
1 Kings 5:10: "and fir trees according to all his desire."
1 Kings 9:11: "trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave"
1 Kings 10:13: "of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside"
2 Chronicles 9:12: "of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside"
Job 21:21: "For what pleasure after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?"
Job 22:3: " Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?"
Job 31:16: "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;"
Psalms 1:2: "But his delight is in the law and in his law doth he meditate day"
Psalms 16:3: "are in the earth, in whom is all my delight."
Psalms 107:30: "they be quiet; them unto their desired haven."
Psalms 111:2: "are great, of all them that have pleasure"
Proverbs 3:15: "is more precious than rubies: the things thou canst desire are not to be compared"
Proverbs 8:11: "is better and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared"
Proverbs 31:13: "wool, and flax, willingly with her hands."
Ecclesiastes 3:1: "thing there is a season, and a time purpose under the heaven:"
Ecclesiastes 3:17: "there is a time there for every purpose and for every work."
Ecclesiastes 5:4: "to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which"
Ecclesiastes 5:8: "marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than"
Ecclesiastes 8:6: "Because to every purpose time and judgment, therefore the misery"
Ecclesiastes 12:1: "draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure"
Ecclesiastes 12:10: "The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words"
Isaiah 44:28: "He is my shepherd, all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple,"
Isaiah 46:10: "saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:"
Isaiah 48:14: "things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans."
Isaiah 53:10: "his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand."
Isaiah 54:12: "of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones."
Isaiah 58:3: "Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labors."
Isaiah 58:13: "thy foot from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call"
Isaiah 58:13: "and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking"
Jeremiah 22:28: "idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed,"
Jeremiah 48:38: "Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD."
Hosea 8:8: "among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure."
Malachi 1:10: "fire on mine altar for naught. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither"
Malachi 3:12: "shall call you blessed: ye shall be a delightful land, saith the LORD"