חֵפֶץ (ḥēpeṣ) is
a Hebrew noun
meaning delight. It appears
39 times
in 12 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H2656).
Also rendered
pleasure
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 712b)
Range of meaning (TWOT 712b)delight, pleasure; desire, longing; the good pleasure, will, purpose; that in, business, matter; valuable; acceptable, delightsome, things desired, pleasant, willingly
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
חֵ֫פֶץnoun, masculine: delight, pleasure
1.delight
2.desire, longing
3.the good pleasure, will, purpose, of Jehovah
4.that in which one takes delight, or matter
Strong's H2656חֵפֶץ: pleasure; hence (abstractly) desire; concretely, a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind) KJV:acceptable, delight(-some), desire, things desired, matter, pleasant(-ure), purpose, willingly.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.
Root family 712: חָפֵץḥāpēṣ — delight in; incline, bend, be pleased, desire; delight, favour, like, move, have pleasure, will, would