Hephzibah

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hef´zi-ba (חפצי־בהּ, ḥephcī-bhāh, “my delight is in her”):

(1) Septuagint Ὁψειβά, Hopseibá, Ἁψειβά, Hapseibá, Ὁφσιβά, Hophsibá, the wife of Hezekiah and the mother of king Manasseh (2 Kings 21:1).

(2) The new symbolical name of Zion, as representing the Lord's favour toward her (Isaiah 62:4); Septuagint translates Θέλημα ἐμόν, Thélēma emón, “my delight.”

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