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Strong’s Concordance H2656
A readable Hebrew dictionary entry from Strong’s Concordance. Definitions help with word study; the meaning in a verse still depends on context.
Word study
- Source
- Strong’s Concordance
- Transliteration
- chephets
- Pronunciation
- khay'-fets
- Occurrences
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- Strong’s number
- H2656
- Brief meaning
- Pleasure, hence (abstractly) desire, concretely, a valuable thing, hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind)
- Source renderings
- acceptable, delight(-some), desire, things desired, matter, pleasant(-ure), purpose, willingly
- Root word
- from H2654
- Full definition from the source
- Pleasure; hence (abstractly) desire; concretely, a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind). Root word: from H2654.
- Digital-source-added cross-reference note
- H2654
Source info
Source and edition
James Strong, Strong's Hebrew Bible Dictionary (1890); Bible Foundation text source; Michael Grier's 1996 ASCII e-text; CrossWire module 1.2.
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02656\ 2656 chephets khay'-fets from 2654; 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. see HEBREW for 02654