חֵפֶץ
chêphets(khay'-fets)
“pleasure; hence (abstractly) desire; concretely, a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind)”
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Definition
Strong’s Definition
pleasure; hence (abstractly) desire; concretely, a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind)
Translated in KJV as
acceptabledelight(-some)desirethings desiredmatterpleasant(-ure)purposewillingly.
Etymology
from H2654 (חָפֵץ);
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“And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the…”