Definition

pleasure; hence (abstractly) desire; concretely, a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind)

Etymology

from H2654 (חָפֵץ);

Where the KJV renders it

• acceptable
• delight(-some)
• desire
• things desired
• matter
• pleasant(-ure)
• purpose
• willingly

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.