Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
desire
Usage: desire, that which is desirable
Chemdah means “delight” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2532 — kai in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2532 חֶמדָּה (chemdah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. chemdah (khem-daw') adj. 1. delight [feminine of H2531] It has 19 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include pleasant, desire, precious, and goodly. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
chemdah (khem-daw') adj. 1. delight [feminine of H2531] KJV: desire, goodly, pleasant, precious. Root(s): H2531
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desire
Usage: desire, that which is desirable
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chemdah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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19 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:
And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?
Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
First 19 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2532.
And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:
And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?
Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels;
And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the north.
Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.
And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.
But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2532, grouped by book.
Chemdah (Strong's H2532) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "delight". chemdah (khem-daw') adj. 1. delight [feminine of H2531]
This page currently indexes 19 linked usages for Strong's H2532 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2532 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as pleasant, desire, precious, and goodly. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.