חֶפְצִי בָּהּ
Chephtsîy bâhh · H2657 · Hebrew · proper noun · 4 occurrences
Person
Meanings
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Hephzibah
A woman, wife of King Hezekiah and mother of King Manasseh
Examples2 Kings 21:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hephzibah.
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Hephzibah
New name of Zion, given to her by God after the exile
ExamplesIsaiah 62:4 It will no longer be said to you, “Forsaken,” Nor to your land will it any longer be said, “Desolate”; But you will be called, “My delight is in her,” And your land, “Married”; For the LORD delights in you, And to Him your land will be married.
How it’s used
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Names of People003001007
- This is the symbolic name Hephzibah, meaning "my delight is in her," given prophetically to restored Zion in Isaiah 62:4.
- Names of Locations003001010
- This is also the symbolic renaming of the land itself as Hephzibah in Isaiah 62:4, marking restored Zion as the LORD's delight.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2657. Chephtsi -bah חֶפְצִיבָֿהּ proper name, feminine (my delight is in her; compare…
-bah חֶפְצִיבָֿהּ proper name, feminine (my delight is in her; compare Phoenician חפצבעל) —
1 mother of king Manasseh 2Ki 21:1.
2 figurative name of Zion Isa 62:4, here explained by בָּךְ יהוה חפץ כִּי for Yahweh delighteth in thee.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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