- Original: חפץ
- Transliteration: Chephets
- Phonetic: khay'-fets
- Definition: 
1. delight, pleasure 
a. delight 
b. desire, longing 
c. the good pleasure 
d. that in which one takes delight 
- Origin: from  
H2654  
- TWOT entry: 712b
- Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine 
- Strong's: From  
H2654  ; pleasure; hence (abstractly) desire; concretely a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind): - acceptable delight (-some) desire things desired matter pleasant (-ure) purpose willingly. 
Total KJV Occurrences: 39 
 • acceptable, 1
 
Ecclesiastes 12:10 
 
 • delight, 3
 
1 Samuel 15:22; 
Psalm 1:2; 
Psalm 16:3 
 
 • delightful, 1
 
Malachi 3:12 
 
 • desire, 9
 
2 Samuel 23:5; 
1 Kings 5:8; 
1 Kings 5:9; 
1 Kings 5:10; 
1 Kings 9:11; 
1 Kings 10:13; 
2 Chronicles 9:12; 
Job 31:16; 
Proverbs 3:15 
 
 • desired, 2
 
Psalm 107:30; 
Proverbs 8:11 
 
 • desireth, 1
 
1 Samuel 18:25 
 
 • matter, 1
 
Ecclesiastes 5:8 
 
 • pleasant, 1
 
Isaiah 54:12 
 
 • pleasure, 16
 
Job 21:21; 
Job 22:3; 
Psalm 111:2; 
Ecclesiastes 5:4; 
Ecclesiastes 12:1; 
Isaiah 44:28; 
Isaiah 46:10; 
Isaiah 48:14; 
Isaiah 53:10; 
Isaiah 58:3; 
Isaiah 58:13(2); 
Jeremiah 22:28; 
Jeremiah 48:38; 
Hosea 8:8; 
Malachi 1:10 
 
 • purpose, 3
 
Ecclesiastes 3:1; 
Ecclesiastes 3:17; 
Ecclesiastes 8:6 
 
 • willingly, 1
 
Proverbs 31:13