חָפֵץchâphêts

Meanings

Same root

• חָפֵץchâphêts · H2655pleased with
• חֵפֶץchêphets · H2656pleasure; hence (abstractly) desire; concretely, a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind)

Where it appears

Appears 74 times in the Bible.

• Genesis 34:19 Shechem wasted no time in acting on this request, for he wanted Jacob’s daughter desperately. Shechem was a highly respected member of his family,
• Numbers 14:8 And if the Lord is pleased with us, he will bring us safely into that land and give it to us. It is a rich land flowing with milk and honey.
• Deuteronomy 21:14 But if you marry her and she does not please you, you must let her go free. You may not sell her or treat her as a slave, for you have humiliated her.
• Deuteronomy 25:7 “But if the man refuses to marry his brother’s widow, she must go to the town gate and say to the elders assembled there, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel—he refuses to fulfill the duties of a brother-in-law by marrying me.’
• Deuteronomy 25:8 The elders of the town will then summon him and talk with him. If he still refuses and says, ‘I don’t want to marry her,’
• Judges 13:23 But his wife said, “If the Lord were going to kill us, he wouldn’t have accepted our burnt offering and grain offering. He wouldn’t have appeared to us and told us this wonderful thing and done these miracles.”