Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to delight in
KJV Usage: beauty, greatly beloved, covet, delectable thing, (X great) delight, desire, goodly, lust, (be) pleasant (thing), precious (thing)
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
חָמַד (cha.mad) — to desire. v 1) to desire, covet, take pleasure in, delight in 1a) (Qal) to desire 1b) (Niphal) to be desirable 1c) (Piel) to delight greatly, desire greatly
חֲמוּדָה (cha.mu.dah) — precious thing. desirableness, preciousness
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · חֶמֶד · חֶמְדָּה · חֲמֻדֹות · מַחְמֹד · מַחְמָד · חֶמְדָּן
Wish | verb qal | ≈ אוה · בחר | ≠ שׂנא
to desire, to want to have = process by which humans or deities experience an eager desire for a person or object
EXO 20:17 · EXO 20:17 · EXO 34:24 · DEU 5:21 · DEU 7:25 · JOS 7:21 · JOB 20:20 · PSA 39:12 · PSA 68:17 · PRO 1:22 · PRO 6:25 · PRO 12:12 · SNG 2:3 · ISA 1:29 · ISA 44:9 · ISA 53:2 · MIC 2:2
Good | verb nif ptc.act
desirable = state in which objects have such a high quality ► that they provoke in others the desire to possess them
Right | verb nif ptc.act
desirable = state in which events have such a high quality ► that they provoke in others the desire to be involved in them
1 PRO 12:12 MT HOTTP-B NIV NJB NJPS NRSV GNT CEV | RSV שׁמד "destroy" | REB חֹמֶר "clay"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
חָמַד vb. desire, take pleasure in Qal desire
Niph. desirable
Pi. delight greatly
base
[חֲמוּדָה] n.f. desirableness, preciousness base