חֵפֶץchêphets

delight, pleasure

Pronunciation: khay'-fets · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2656

Meanings

1. delight (Isaiah 54:12; Malachi 3:12; Ecclesiastes 12:10)

2. desire, longing (Job 31:16; Psalms 107:30; 2 Samuel 23:5)

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

4. that in which one takes delight, his business (late), or matter (Isaiah 53:10; Isaiah 58:3; Isaiah 58:13)

Same root

חָפֵץchâphêts · H2654properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire
חֶפְצִי בָּהּChephtsîy bâhh · H2657Cheptsi-bah, a fanciful name for Palestine

Where it appears

Appears 39 times in the Bible.

1 Samuel 15:22 But Samuel replied, “What is more pleasing to the Lord: your burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Listen! Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission is better than offering the fat of rams.
1 Samuel 18:25 he told them, “Tell David that all I want for the bride price is 100 Philistine foreskins! Vengeance on my enemies is all I really want.” But what Saul had in mind was that David would be killed in the fight.
2 Samuel 23:5 “Is it not my family God has chosen? Yes, he has made an everlasting covenant with me. His agreement is arranged and guaranteed in every detail. He will ensure my safety and success.
1 Kings 5:8 Then he sent this reply to Solomon: “I have received your message, and I will supply all the cedar and cypress timber you need.
1 Kings 5:9 My servants will bring the logs from the Lebanon mountains to the Mediterranean Sea and make them into rafts and float them along the coast to whatever place you choose. Then we will break the rafts apart so you can carry the logs away. You can pay me by supplying me with food for my household.”
1 Kings 5:10 So Hiram supplied as much cedar and cypress timber as Solomon desired.

See every passage

1 Samuel 15:22, 18:25
2 Samuel 23:5
1 Kings 5:8, 5:9, 5:10, 9:11, 10:13
2 Chronicles 9:12
Job 21:21, 22:3, 31:16
Psalms 1:2, 16:3, 107:30, 111:2
Proverbs 3:15, 8:11, 31:13
Ecclesiastes 3:1, 3:17, 5:4, 5:8, 8:6, 12:1, 12:10
Isaiah 44:28, 46:10, 48:14, 53:10, 54:12, 58:3, 58:13
Jeremiah 22:28, 48:38
Hosea 8:8
Malachi 1:10, 3:12

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).