chashak · be attached, love

What it means

chashak (חָשַׁק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be attached, love”.

Be attached to someone, set one's heart on them; delight in.

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. To be drawn and let the heart bind itself to someone or something.
2. To tie or join the posts together with bars.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• joined ×3
• he desired ×2
• set his affection ×2
• have loved ×1
• he has set his love ×1
• longs ×1
• you become attached ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×3
• Deuteronomy×3
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1

• Genesis 34:8

  Hamor spoke with them, saying, “Shechem, my son, his soul longs for your daughter; please give her to him as a wife.

• Exodus 27:17

  All the pillars of the courtyard all around shall be joined with rods of silver; their hooks of silver and their bases of bronze.

• Exodus 38:17

  And the bases for the pillars were of bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their rods of silver, and the overlaying of their tops of silver, and they were joined with rods of silver, all the pillars of the courtyard.

• Exodus 38:28

  And with the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their tops and joined them with rods.

• Deuteronomy 7:7

  It was not because you were more numerous than all the peoples that YHWH set his affection on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all the peoples;

• Deuteronomy 10:15

  Yet on your fathers YHWH set his affection to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, you, out of all the peoples, as it is this day.

• Deuteronomy 21:11

  and you see among the captives a woman beautiful in form, and you become attached to her and would take her for yourself as a wife,

• 1 Kings 9:19

  and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and the cities for chariots, and the cities for horsemen, and the desire of Solomon that he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his dominion.

• 2 Chronicles 8:6

  and Baalath, and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horsemen, and all the desire of Solomon, what he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

• Psalms 91:14

  “Because he has set his love on me, I will bring him to safety; I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

• Isaiah 38:17

  Look, for peace I had bitterness, bitterness; but you have loved my soul out of the pit of nothingness, for you have cast behind your back all my sins.