H2657 H2657
Hephzibah ('my delight is in her'), name of Manasseh's mother and a symbolic name for restored Zion
A feminine name composed of hephets ('delight') and bah ('in her'), used both as a personal name and as a prophetic epithet. In 2 Kings 21:1, Hephzibah is the mother of King Manasseh. In Isaiah 62:4, the name is applied symbolically to Zion: 'You shall no longer be called Forsaken... but Hephzibah, for the LORD delights in you.' The multilingual glosses reveal the tension between transliteration and translation: English renders 'My-delight-is,' while Spanish gives 'Jefzi' alongside 'Mi-deleite-esta.'
Senses
1. sense 1 — Both the historical personal name of King Manasseh's mother (2 Kgs 21:1) and a prophetic symbolic name for restored Jerusalem (Isa 62:4). The Isaiah passage explicitly etymologizes the name: ki-haphets YHWH bakh ('for the LORD delights in you'), contrasting it with 'Azubah' (Forsaken) and 'Shemamah' (Desolate). The multilingual evidence shows translators oscillating between transliterating ('Cheftsi-Bah') and translating the meaning ('My-delight-is-in-her'), reflecting the dual register of the name as both proper noun and theological statement. 4×
AR["-", "-بِ-هَا", "حِفْصِيبَاه-", "مَسَرَّتِي-"]·ben["আমার-আনন্দ-", "তাতে", "বাহ", "হেফসী-"]·DE["Bah", "Cheftsi-", "in-ihr", "mein-Gefallen"]·EN["Bah", "Cheftsi-", "My-delight-is", "in-her"]·FR["Bah", "Cheftsi-", "[חפצי]", "en-elle"]·heb["בה", "חפצי"]·HI["उस-में", "खेफ़त्सी-", "बाह", "मेरी-खुशी"]·ID["Ba", "Hefzi-", "Kesenangan-Ku", "padanya"]·IT["Bah", "Cheftsi-", "[חפצי]", "in-essa"]·jav["Kasenengan-Kawula-", "ing-piyambakipun"]·KO["그녀-안에-있다라고", "나의-기쁨이", "였다", "헵시바-"]·PT["Cheftsi-", "Vah", "meu-prazer-", "nela"]·RU["Хефци-", "в-ней", "вах", "угодная-Мне-"]·ES["Jefzi", "Mi-deleite-está-", "bah", "en-ella"]·SW["Furaha-Yangu", "Hefsiba-", "Imo-Ndani-Yake"]·TR["Hefsi-", "bah", "onda", "zevkim-"]·urd["اُس-میں", "تھا", "حفصیباہ", "میری-خوشی"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† חֶפְצִי־בָהּ n.pr.f. (my delight is in her; cf. Ph. חפצבעל)— 1. mother of king Manasseh 2 K 21:1. 2. fig. name of Zion Is 62:4, here expl. by כִּי חפץ יהוה בָּךְ for Yahweh delighteth in thee.