Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #2657 - חֶפְּצִי בָּהּ Chephtsi-bah ("my delight is in her")

Original Word:	חֶפְּצִי בָּהּ
Transliteration:	Chephtsi-bah
Definition:	"my delight is in her", a name for Zion, also the mother of King Manasseh
Part of Speech:	Proper Name Feminine
Phonetic Spelling:	(khef-tsee'baw)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Hephzi-bah

From chephets with suffixes; my delight (is) in her; Cheptsi-bah, a fanciful name for Palestine -- Hephzi-bah.

see HEBREW chephets

Englishman's Concordance

Hephzi-bah=“my delight is in her”
1) the queen of King Hezekiah and mother of Manasseh
2) a name for Jesusalem (figuratively)
Part of Speech: noun proper feminine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H2656 with suffixes

Brown-Driver-Briggs

חֶפְצִיבָֿהּproper name, feminine (my delight is in her; compare Phoenician חפצבעל) —

1mother of king Manasseh2 Kings 21:1.

2 figurative name of Zion Isaiah 62:4, here explained by כִּי חפץ יהוה בָּךְfor Yahweh delighteth in thee.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 2657. חֶפְצִי־בָהּ (Chephtsi-bah) — 2 Occurrences

2 Kings 21:1
HEB:אִמּ֖וֹ חֶפְצִי־ בָֽהּ׃
NAS: and his mother's name was Hephzibah.
KJV: And his mother's name [was] Hephzibah.
INT: name and his mother's was Hephzibah

Isaiah 62:4
HEB:יִקָּרֵא֙ חֶפְצִי־ בָ֔הּ וּלְאַרְצֵ֖ךְ בְּעוּלָ֑ה
KJV: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land
INT: for will be called Hephzibah her and your land Married

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