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Strong's #2165: euphraino (pronounced yoo-frah'-ee-no)

from 2095 and 5424; to put (middle voice or passively, be) in a good frame of mind, i.e. rejoice:--fare, make glad, be (make) merry, rejoice.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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euphrainō

1) to gladden, make joyful

1a) to be glad, to be merry, to rejoice

1b) to rejoice in, be delighted with a thing

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G2095 and G5424

Citing in TDNT: 2:772, 278




Usage:

This word is used 14 times:

Luke 12:19: "take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry."
Luke 15:23: "and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:"
Luke 15:24: "is found. And they began to be merry."
Luke 15:29: "me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:"
Luke 15:32: "It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy"
Luke 16:19: "in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:"
Acts 2:26: "Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue"
Acts 7:41: "unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own"
Romans 15:10: "And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people."
2 Corinthians 2:2: "make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry"
Galatians 4:27: "For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and"
Revelation 11:10: "over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another;"
Revelation 12:12: "Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them."
Revelation 18:20: " Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and"









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