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delights

Meaning of “delights”

Sense 1: Great pleasures, joys, or things that give pleasure. Sense 2: As a verb, gives great pleasure.

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6 occurrences6 verses5 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: 2 Samuel 1:24

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Every verse containing “delights”

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2 Samuel 1:24
Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 2 Samuel 1:24 · retained source text

Yee daughters of Israel, weepe ouer Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of golde vpon your apparell.

Psalms 119:92
Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 119:92 · retained source text

Unlesse thy lawe had bene my delights: I should then haue perished in mine affliction.

Psalms 119:143
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 119:143 · retained source text

Trouble and anguish haue taken hold on me: yet thy commaundements are my delights.

1611 marginal noteHebr. found me.

Proverbs 8:31
Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Proverbs 8:31 · retained source text

Reioycing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights were with the sonnes of men.

Ecclesiastes 2:8
I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ecclesiastes 2:8 · retained source text

I gathered mee also siluer and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the prouinces: I gate mee men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sonnes of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

1611 marginal noteHebr. musicall instrument, and instruments.

1611 marginal note1.King.9.28. and 10.4.

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