# חָפֵץ (chafets)

Israeli respelling: cha-fets. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2654. 71 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire

King James renderings: [idiom] any at all, (have, take) delight, desire, favour, like, move, be (well) pleased, have pleasure, will, would.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chafets-h2654

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 34:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 o…
- [Numbers 14:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Deuteronomy 21:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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,…
- [Deuteronomy 25:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 br…
- [Deuteronomy 25:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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;
- [Judges 13:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 han…
- [Ruth 3:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 p…
- [1 Samuel 2:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 th…
- [1 Samuel 18:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [1 Samuel 19:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/19/1) — And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.
- [2 Samuel 15:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [2 Samuel 20:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [2 Samuel 22:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/22/20) — He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
- [2 Samuel 24:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 lor…
- [1 Kings 9:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [1 Kings 10:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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, therefor…
- [2 Chronicles 9:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 Isra…
- [Esther 2:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 chamber…
- [Esther 6:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Esther 6:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/6/7) — And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,
- [Esther 6:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/6/9) — And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom th…
- [Esther 6:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/6/11) — Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaime…
- [Job 9:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/9/3) — If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
- [Job 13:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/13/3) — Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
- [Job 21:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/21/14) — Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
- [Job 33:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/33/32) — If thou hast anything to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.
- [Job 40:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/40/17) — He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
- [Psalms 18:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/18/19) — He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
- [Psalms 22:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/22/8) — He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
- [Psalms 37:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/37/23) — The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
- [Psalms 40:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/40/6) — Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
- [Psalms 40:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/40/8) — I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
- [Psalms 41:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/41/11) — By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
- [Psalms 51:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/51/6) — Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
- [Psalms 51:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/51/16) — For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
- [Psalms 51:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/51/19) — Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bulloc…
- [Psalms 68:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 sil…
- [Psalms 73:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/73/25) — Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
- [Psalms 109:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Psalms 112:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/112/1) — Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
- [Psalms 115:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/115/3) — But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.
- [Psalms 119:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/35) — Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
- [Psalms 135:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/135/6) — Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
- [Psalms 147:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/147/10) — He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.
- [Proverbs 18:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/18/2) — A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
- [Proverbs 21:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Ecclesiastes 8:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/8/3) — Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
- [Song of Solomon 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 plea…
- [Song of Solomon 3:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/3/5) — 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 plea…
- [Song of Solomon 8:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/8/4) — I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
- [Isaiah 1:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/1/11) — To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed b…
- [Isaiah 13:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/13/17) — Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
- [Isaiah 42:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/42/21) — The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
- [Isaiah 53:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/53/10) — Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed,…
- [Isaiah 55:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/55/11) — So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it…
- [Isaiah 56:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/56/4) — For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
- [Isaiah 58:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/58/2) — Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they a…
- [Isaiah 62:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/62/4) — Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land…
- [Isaiah 65:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/65/12) — Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spak…
- [Isaiah 66:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/66/3) — He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as i…
- [Isaiah 66:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/66/4) — I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did no…
- [Jeremiah 6:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/6/10) — To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word…
- [Jeremiah 9:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/9/24) — But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment,…
- [Jeremiah 42:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/42/22) — Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and…
- [Ezekiel 18:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/23) — Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
- [Ezekiel 18:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/32) — For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
- [Ezekiel 33:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/33/11) — Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live…
- [Hosea 6:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/6/6) — For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
- [Jonah 1:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/1/14) — Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not…
- [Micah 7:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/7/18) — Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his…
- [Malachi 2:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/2/17) — Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the si…