chefets · delight, desire, matter

What it means

chefets (חֵפֶץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “delight, desire, matter”.

Delight, pleasure, desire: what pleases someone. It can also be a valuable thing or a matter, an affair.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What pleases someone.
2. What one wants, or what God intends.
3. A matter or thing to be done.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• delight ×12
• desire ×9
• pleasure ×8
• matter ×4
• desires ×1
• have an interest ×1
• interest does he have ×1
• precious ×1
• things desired ×1
• wish ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×5
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×3
• Ecclesiastes×7
• Isaiah×8
• Jeremiah×2
• Hosea×1
• Malachi×2

• 1 Samuel 15:22

  Samuel said, “Does YHWH have as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in listening to the voice of YHWH? Look, to listen is better than sacrifice, to pay attention than the fat of rams.

• 1 Samuel 18:25

  Saul said, “Thus you shall say to David: ‘The king has no delight in a bride-price, but in a hundred foreskins of Philistines, to take vengeance on the enemies of the king.’” And Saul planned to bring down David by the hand of the Philistines.

• 2 Samuel 23:5

  For is not my house so with El? For an eternal covenant he has set for me, ordered in all things and secured. For all my salvation and all my delight, will he not make them sprout?

• 1 Kings 5:8

  And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have heard what you sent to me; I will do all your pleasure concerning timber of cedar and timber of cypress.

• 1 Kings 5:9

  My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea, and I will make them into rafts on the sea to the place that you will send word to me, and I will break them up there, and you will carry them away; and you will do my pleasure by giving food for my house.”

• 1 Kings 5:10

  So Hiram was giving Solomon timber of cedar and timber of cypress, all his pleasure.

• 1 Kings 9:11

  — Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with timber of cedar and timber of cypress and with gold, according to all his pleasure — that then King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

• 1 Kings 10:13

  And King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all her pleasure, whatever she asked, besides what he gave her according to the hand of King Solomon. And she turned and went to her land, she and her servants.

• 2 Chronicles 9:12

  King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her wish, whatever she asked, besides what she had brought to the king. Then she turned and went to her land, she and her servants.

• Job 21:21

  For what interest does he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

• Job 22:3

  Does Shaddai have an interest in your being righteous, or is it gain that you make blameless your ways?

• Job 31:16

  If I withheld the poor from their desire, or wore out the eyes of the widow,

• Psalms 1:2

  but in the instruction of YHWH is his delight, and on his instruction he meditates by day and night.

• Psalms 16:3

  As for the holy ones who are in the land, they and the nobles, all my pleasure is in them.

• Psalms 107:30

  And they were glad because they grew quiet, and he guided them to the harbor of their desire.

• Psalms 111:2

  Great are the works of YHWH, sought out by all who delight in them.

• Proverbs 3:15

  She is more precious than pearls, and all that you desire cannot compare with her.

• Proverbs 8:11

  For wisdom is better than pearls, and all things desired cannot compare with her.

• Proverbs 31:13

  She seeks wool and flax, and works with the delight of her palms.

• Ecclesiastes 3:1

  For everything there is an appointed time, and a time for every matter under the heavens:

• Ecclesiastes 3:17

  I said in my heart, “The righteous and the wicked Elohim will judge, for there is a time for every matter and for every work there.”

• Ecclesiastes 5:4

  When you vow a vow to Elohim, do not delay to fulfill it, for he has no delight in the senseless; what you vow, fulfill.

• Ecclesiastes 5:8

  If you see the oppression of the poor and the robbing of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be amazed at the matter, for a high one watches over a high one, and higher ones over them.

• Ecclesiastes 8:6

  For for every matter there is a time and judgment, for the evil of the human being is great upon him.

• Ecclesiastes 12:1

  And remember your Creator in the days of your young manhood, before the days of evil come and years arrive of which you will say, “I have no delight in them”;

• Ecclesiastes 12:10

  Qohelet sought to find words of delight, and what was written with uprightness, words of truth.

• Isaiah 44:28

  who says of Cyrus, ‘My shepherd, and all my desire he will fulfill,’ saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be rebuilt,’ and of the temple, ‘Your foundation will be laid.’”

• Isaiah 46:10

  declaring from the beginning the end, and from of old what has not been done; saying, ‘My counsel will stand, and all my desire I will do’;

• Isaiah 48:14

  Gather, all of you, and hear: who among them has declared these things? YHWH loves him; he will do his desire on Babylon, and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.

• Isaiah 53:10

  And YHWH was pleased to crush him; he made him sick. If he makes his soul a guilt offering, he will see offspring, he will prolong days, and the desire of YHWH will prosper in his hand.

• Isaiah 54:12

  And I will make your battlements of ruby, and your gates of stones of crystal, and all your border of precious stones.

• Isaiah 58:3

  ‘Why have we fasted, and you did not see? Why have we humbled our soul, and you do not know?’ Look, on the day of your fast you find your desire, and you oppress all your workers.

• Isaiah 58:13

  If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your desires on my holy day, and call the Sabbath ‘a delight,’ the holy day of YHWH ‘honorable,’ and honor it by not doing your ways, by not finding your desire nor speaking a word,

• Jeremiah 22:28

  Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered vessel, or an object in which there is no delight? Why have they been hurled out, he and his offspring, and cast into the land that they have not known?

• Jeremiah 48:38

  On all the rooftops of Moab and in its squares all of it is lamentation; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which there is no pleasure, declares YHWH.

• Hosea 8:8

  Israel is swallowed; now they have become among the nations like a vessel in which there is no delight.

• Malachi 1:10

  Who also among you will shut the doors, so that you do not light my altar for nothing? I have no pleasure in you, says YHWH Tsevaot, and an offering I will not accept from your hand.

• Malachi 3:12

  And all the nations will call you happy, for you will be a land of delight, says YHWH Tsevaot.

And 1 more times.