Strong's Hebrew · H2836
חָשַׁק
châshaq · khaw-shak'
have a delight, (have a) desire, fillet, long, set (in) love.
Definition
to cling, i.e. join, (figuratively) to love, delight in; elliptically; to deliver
Derivation
a primitive root; also interchangeable for H2820 (חָשַׂךְ)
Appears 11 times in Scripture
“if you see a beautiful woman among them, and you desire her and want to take her as your wife,”
““Because he loves Me, I will deliver him; because he knows My name, I will protect him.”
“All the posts around the courtyard shall have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze bases.”
“The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.”
“as well as all the store cities that Solomon had for his chariots and horses—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.”
“as well as Baalath, all the store cities that belonged to Solomon, and all the cities for his chariots and horses—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.”
“Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.”
“But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.”
“The bases for the posts were bronze, the hooks and bands were silver, and the plating for the tops of the posts was silver. So all the posts of the courtyard were banded with silver.”
“With the 1,775 shekels of silver he made the hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and supplied bands for them.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).