--- title: חֵפֶץ — delight · The Tanakh dictionary description: חֵפֶץ (2656), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 38 times: delight. BDB 1906: n.m. delight, pleasure. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2656.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [ח](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1495-5.md)‎ / חֵפֶץ‎ # חֵפֶץ «חֵפֶץ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **delight** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 38 times · **Key:** 2656 · **BDB:** חֵ֫פֶץ ### Glosses desire (10); pleasure (10); matter (4) ### Meaning (OSHB) delight [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2656/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) n.m. delight, pleasure [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2656/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Pr 3:15 delight, pleasure;—ח׳ Is 54:12 + 20 times; sf. חֶפְצְךָ Is 58:13 etc. + 13 times sfs.; pl. חֲפָצִים Pr 8:11; sf. חֲפָצֶיךָ Pr 3:15; חֲפָצֶ֖ךָ Is 58:13— delight אבני ח׳ Is 54:12 delightful stones; אֶרֶץ ח׳ Mal 3:12 delightsome land; דִּבְרֵי ח׳ Ec 12:10; so perhaps also בִּגְדֵי ח׳ Ez 27:20 garments of delight, i.e. of beauty and luxury (Gr; MT חֹפֶשׁ q.v.); c. בְּ of persons ψ 16:3; Ec 5:3 Mal 1:10; of things 1 S 15:22; 18:25 ψ 1:2; Jb 21:21; Ec 12:1; כְּלִי אֵין חֵפֶץ בּוֹ vessel wherein is no pleasure Je 22:28; 48:38; Ho 8:8; הַחֵפֶץ לְשַׁדַּי כִּי Jb 22:3 is it a pleasure to Shadday that? desire, longing מנע מח׳ דלים Jb 31:16 withhold the poor from (their) desire; מְחוֹז חֶפְצָם the city of their desire ψ 107:30; כל חפץ all (one’s) desire 2 S 23:5 1 K 5:22, 23, 24; 9:11, 10:13 = 2 Ch 9:12; כל חפצים all things to be desired Pr 3:15; 8:11. the good pleasure, will, purpose, of Yahweh Ju 13:23 (J) Is 44:28; 46:10; 48:14. that in which one takes delight, his business (late), or matter (very late, cf. Mish. = thing) חֵפֶץ י׳ בְּיָדוֹ יִצְלַח the good pleasure (cause, business) of Yahweh will prosper in his hands Is 53:10; - Is 58:3, 13; עֲשׂוֹת חֲפָצֶךָ doing thy affairs Is 58:13 (see De in loco); בְּחֵפֶץ כַּפֶּיהָ in the business of her hands Pr 31:13; עֵת לְכָל־חֵפֶץ time for every matter, affair Ec 3:1, 17; 8:6; אַל־תִּתְמַהּ עַל־הַחֵפֶץ marvel not at the matter Ec 5:7. —חפץ is not used in any of its forms in E D2 H P of the Hexateuch. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 37 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «חֵפֶץ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2656/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Job 31:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.16/) אִם־אֶ֭מְנַע מֵחֵ֣פֶץ דַּלִּ֑ים וְעֵינֵ֖י אַלְמָנָ֣ה אֲכַלֶּֽה׃ *Word for word:* if I.restrained from desire poor.\[people\] and.\[the\] eyes of.a.widow I.caused.to.fail *JPS 1917:* If I have withheld aught that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; [Proverbs 31:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.31.13/) דָּ֭רְשָׁה צֶ֣מֶר וּפִשְׁתִּ֑ים וַ֝תַּ֗עַשׂ בְּחֵ֣פֶץ כַּפֶּֽיהָ׃ *Word for word:* she.seeks wool and flax(es) and she.worked in the.delight her.hands her *JPS 1917:* She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. - ← previous: [חָפֵץ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2655.md) - next →: [חָפַץ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5e4_5b7_5e5.md) - ↑ back to [ח](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1495-5.md)