Strong's Concordance H4261

Original Word: מַחְמָד
Transliteration: machmâd
Phonetic Spelling: makh-mawd'
from H2530; delightful; hence, a delight, i.e. object of affection or desire; beloved, desire, goodly, lovely, pleasant (thing).

Usages throughout the bible

1 Kings 20:6 - Yet I will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this time, and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, that whatsoever is pleasant H4261 in thine eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away.

2 Chronicles 36:19 - And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly H4261 vessels thereof.

Song of Solomon 5:16 - His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. H4261 This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 64:11 - Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things H4261 are laid waste.

Lamentations 1:10 - The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: H4261 for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.

Lamentations 1:11 - All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things H4261 for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.

Lamentations 2:4 - He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant H4261 to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

Ezekiel 24:16 - Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire H4261 of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.

Ezekiel 24:21 - Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire H4261 of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 24:25 - Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire H4261 of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,

Hosea 9:6 - For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant H4261 places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.

Hosea 9:16 - Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved H4261 fruit of their womb.

Joel 3:5 - Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: H4261