Words the Bible translates as delight in
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- ḥaphetsחָפֵץto find pleasure in something, so that you want it and lean toward it
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- to bend or make stiff (said of an animal's tail)
- ratsahרָצָהto be pleased with someone or something: to accept them gladly, look on them with favor, and take delight in them
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- to pay off in full: to satisfy a debt or serve out a sentence until the account is settled
- ḥamadחָמַדto find something desirable and want it, a wanting that can run all the way from quiet delight to a craving that reaches out to take
- ru'aḥרִיחַto smell: to take in a scent, and so, when God is the one smelling, to receive an offering with favor
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