2657. Chephtsi-bah
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Chephtsi-bah: Hephzibah

Original Word: חֶפְּצִי בָּהּ
Part of Speech: Proper Name Feminine
Transliteration: Chephtsiy bahh
Pronunciation: khef-tsee-bah
Phonetic Spelling: (khef-tsee'baw)
KJV: Hephzi-bah
NASB: Hephzibah
Word Origin: [from H2656 (חֵפֶץ - desire) with suffixes]

1. my delight (is) in her
2. Cheptsi-bah, a fanciful name for Israel

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

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from chephets
Definition
"my delight is in her," a name for Zion, also the mother of King Manasseh
NASB Translation
Hephzibah (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
חֶפְצִיבָֿהּ proper name, feminine (my delight is in her; compare Phoenician חפצבעל) —

1 mother of king Manasseh 2 Kings 21:1.

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

Forms and Transliterations
בָ֔הּ בָֽהּ׃ בה בה׃ ḇāh Vah
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Englishman's Concordance
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

2 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 2657
2 Occurrences


ḇāh — 2 Occ.

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