Strong's #2654: chaphets (pronounced khaw-fates')
a primitive root; properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire:--X any at all, (have, take) delight, desire, favour, like, move, be (well) pleased, have pleasure, will, would.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
châphêts
1) to delight in, take pleasure in, desire, be pleased with
1a) (Qal)
1a1) of men
1a1a) to take pleasure in, delight in
1a1b) to delight, desire, be pleased to do
1a2) of God
1a2a) to delight in, have pleasure in
1a2b) to be pleased to do
2) to move, bend down
2a) (Qal) to bend down
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 76 times:
Song of Solomon 2:7: "nor awake my love, till he please. till he please."
Song of Solomon 3:5: "awake my love, till he please. he please."
Song of Solomon 8:4: "my love, until he please. he please."
Isaiah 1:11: "of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs,"
Isaiah 13:17: "silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight"
Isaiah 42:21: "The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honorable."
Isaiah 53:10: " Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make an offering for sin,"
Isaiah 55:11: "but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto"
Isaiah 56:4: "my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;"
Isaiah 58:2: "Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation"
Isaiah 58:2: "of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God."
Isaiah 62:4: "Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married."
Isaiah 65:12: "before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not."
Isaiah 66:3: "they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations."
Isaiah 66:4: "before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not."
Jeremiah 6:10: "of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight"
Jeremiah 9:24: "and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 42:22: "by the famine, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn."
Ezekiel 18:23: " Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD:"
Ezekiel 18:23: "Have I any pleasure at all Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD:"
Ezekiel 18:32: "For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord"
Ezekiel 33:11: "saith the Lord I have no pleasure I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but"
Hosea 6:6: "For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge more than burnt offerings."
Jonah 1:14: "O LORD, hast done as it pleased"
Micah 7:18: "his anger forever, because he delighteth in mercy."
Malachi 2:17: "in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?"
