Lexical Definition

‎חֵפֶץ‎ chêphets (khay'-fets) pleasure ^H:N-M
from ‎חָפֵץ‎

acceptable, delight(-some), desire, things desired, matter, pleasant(-ure), purpose, willingly.

• pleasure
• hence (abstractly) desire
• concretely, a valuable thing
• hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind)

1) delight, pleasure
1a) delight
1b) desire, longing
1c) the good pleasure
1d) that in which one takes delight

See Greek: βουλεύω · ἐκλεκτός · εὔχρηστος · θέλησις · μέλλω · μέλω · πρᾶγμα · τίμιος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎חֵ֫פֶץ‎ noun masculine^{Prov 3:15} delight, pleasure; — ‎׳‎‎ח‎ Isa 54:12 + 20 t.; suffix ‎חֶפְצְךָ‎ Isa 58:13 etc. + 13 t. suffixes; plural ‎חֲפָצִים‎ Prov 8:11 suffix ‎חֲפָצֶיךָ‎ Prov 3:15 ‎חֲפָצֶ֖ךָ‎ Isa 58:13 —

1. delight ‎׳‎‎אבני ח‎ Isa 54:12 delightful stones; ‎׳‎‎אֶרֶץ ח‎ Mal 3:12 delightsome land; ‎׳‎‎דִּבְּרֵי ח‎ Eccl 12:10 so perhaps also ‎׳‎‎בִּגְדֵי ח‎ Ezek 27:20 garments of delight, i.e. of beauty and luxury (Gr; ᵑ0 ‎חֹפֶשׁ‎ q. v.); with ‎בְּ‎ of persons Ps 16:3; Eccl 5:3*; Mal 1:10 of things 1Sam 15:22; 1Sam 18:25; Ps 1:2; Job 21:21; Eccl 12:1 ‎כְּלִי‎ ‎אֵין חֵפֶץ בּוֺ‎ vessel wherein is no pleasure Jer 22:28; Jer 48:38; Hos 8:8 ‎הַחֵפֶץ לְשַׁדַּי כִּי‎ Job 22:3 is it a pleasure to Shadday that ?

2. desire, longing ‎דלים‎ ‎׳‎‎מנע מח‎ Job 31:16 withhold the poor from (their) desire; ‎מְחוֺז חֶפְצָם‎ the city of their desire Ps 107:30 ‎כל חפץ‎ all (one's) desire 2Sam 23:5; 1Kgs 5:22*; 1Kgs 5:23*; 1Kgs 5:24*; 1Kgs 9:11; 1Kgs 10:13 = 2Chr 9:12 ‎כל חפצים‎ all things to be desired Prov 3:15; Prov 8:11.

3. the good pleasure, will, purpose, of Yahweh Isa 44:28; Isa 46:10; Isa 48:14.

4. that in which one takes delight, his business (late), or matter (very late, compare in Mishna = thing) ‎בְּיָדוֺ יִצְלַח‎ ‎׳‎‎חֵפֶץ י‎ the good pleasure (cause, business) of Yahweh will prosper in his hands Isa 53:10 ‎׳‎‎מצא ח‎ Isa 58:3; Isa 58:13 ‎עֲשׂוֺת חֲפָצֶךָ‎ doing thy affairs Isa 58:13 (see De on the passage); ‎בְּחֵפֶץ כַּפֶּיהָ‎ in the business of her hands Prov 31:13 ‎עֵתּ לְכָלחֵֿפֶץ‎ time for every matter, affair Eccl 3:1; Eccl 3:17; Eccl 8:6 ‎אַלֿ‎ ‎תִּתְּמַהּ עַלהַֿחֵפֶץ‎ marvel not at the matter Eccl 5:7*.

Note. — ‎חפץ‎ is not used in any of its forms in E D² H P of the Hexateuch.

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