Strong H26542 sensesחָפֵץ

The 2 senses of Strong H2654

The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H2654 appears in 71 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

1. to delight inH2654Ato delight in, take pleasure in, desire, be pleased with68 verses · 21 books
2. to stiffenחָפַץH2654Bto sway1 verse · Job

General definition

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

• delight26
• please12
• delighteth11
• desire7
• pleasure3
• will3
• thou2
• at1
• favourest1
• favoureth1
• i1
• like1

First verses

1. Genesis 34:19
   And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.
2. Numbers 14:8
   If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
3. Deuteronomy 21:14
   And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.
4. Deuteronomy 25:7
   And if the man like not to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.
5. Deuteronomy 25:8
   Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;
6. Judges 13:23
   But his wife said unto him, If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.
7. Ruth 3:13
   Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman’s part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as the Lord liveth: lie down until the morning.
8. 1 Samuel 2:25
   If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them.
9. 1 Samuel 18:22
   And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king’s son in law.
10. 1 Samuel 19:2
    But Jonathan Saul’s son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:
11. 2 Samuel 15:26
    But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.
12. 2 Samuel 20:11
    And one of Joab’s men stood by him, and said, He that favoureth Joab, and he that is for David, let him go after Joab.
13. 2 Samuel 22:20
    He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
14. 2 Samuel 24:3
    And Joab said unto the king, Now the Lord thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?
15. 1 Kings 9:1
    And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,
16. 1 Kings 10:9
    Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the Lord loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.
17. 2 Chronicles 9:8
    Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for the Lord thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.
18. Esther 2:14
    In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.
19. Esther 6:6
    So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?
20. Esther 6:7
    And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,