# חֶפְצִי בָּהּ (cheftsibah)

Israeli respelling: chef-tsi-bah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2657. 2 Old Testament occurrences.

Cheptsi-bah, a fanciful name for Palestine

King James renderings: Hephzi-bah.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/cheftsibah-h2657

## Occurrences

- [2 Kings 21:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/21/1) — Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hephzibah.
- [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…