H2531 - חֶמֶד (chemed)

H2531 חֶמֶד (chemed) kheh'-med

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

delight

Strong's Definition

delight

Derivation: from H2530 (חָמַד);

KJV Usage: desirable, pleasant.

TWOT Reference: 673a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) desire, delight, beauty, desirable, pleasant

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G1939 G2570

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

desire, delight, beauty, desirable, pleasant

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

חֶמֶד chemed BDB Definition: 1) desire, delight, beauty, desirable, pleasant Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H2530 Same Word by TWOT Number: 673a Total KJV Occurrences: 6

Bible Occurrences (6)

27:2 32:12

23:6 23:12 23:23

5:11

Isaiah 27:2

In that day: Sing about a fruitful vineyard.

Isaiah 32:12

Beat your breasts for the pleasant... fields, for the fruitful vines,

Ezekiel 23:6

clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all desirable young men, horsemen mounted on steeds.

Ezekiel 23:12

She too lusted after the Assyrians... — governors and commanders, warriors dressed in splendor, horsemen riding on steeds, all desirable young men.

Ezekiel 23:23

the Babylonians... and all the Chaldeans, [the men of] Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians... with them— all desirable young men, governors and commanders, officers and men of renown, mounted on horses.

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses... you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.