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H2654Hebrew

חָפֵץ

Definition and meaning

chaphets (khaw-fates') v. 1. (properly) to incline to 2. (by implication) (literally but rarely) to bend 3. (figuratively) to be pleased with, desire [a primitive root] KJV: X any at all, (have, take) delight, desire, favour, like, move, be (well) pleased, have pleasure, will, would.

Tagged KJV passages

71 matching verses - 75.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

Job 21:14

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Matched English: desire
Job 33:32

If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.

Matched English: desire
Job 40:17

He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.

Matched English: moveth
Psalms 18:19

He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

Matched English: delighted
Psalms 22:8

He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

Matched English: delighted
Psalms 37:23

The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.

Matched English: delighteth
Psalms 40:6

Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

Matched English: desire
Psalms 40:8

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

Matched English: delight
Psalms 41:11

By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.

Matched English: favourest
Psalms 51:6

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

Matched English: desirest
Psalms 51:16

For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

Matched English: desirest
Psalms 51:19

Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

Matched English: pleased
Psalms 68:30

Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.

Matched English: delight
Psalms 73:25

Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

Matched English: desire
Psalms 109:17

As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

Matched English: delighted
Psalms 112:1

Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.

Matched English: delighteth
Psalms 115:3

But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.

Matched English: pleased
Psalms 119:35

Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

Matched English: delight
Psalms 135:6

Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.

Matched English: pleased
Psalms 147:10

He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.

Matched English: delighteth
Proverbs 18:2

A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.

Matched English: delight
Proverbs 21:1

The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

Matched English: will
Ecclesiastes 8:3

Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

Matched English: pleaseth
Song of Solomon 2:7

I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

Matched English: please