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Strong's #8056: sameach (pronounced saw-may'-akh)

from 8055; blithe or gleeful:--(be) glad, joyful, (making) merry((-hearted), -ily), rejoice(-ing).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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śâmêach

1) joyful, merry, glad

1a) joyful, showing joy

1b) you who rejoice (substantive)

Part of Speech: adjective verbal

Relation: from H8055



Usage:

This word is used 20 times:

Deuteronomy 16:15: "of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice."
1 Kings 1:40: "him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent"
1 Kings 1:45: "in Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This"
1 Kings 4:20: "in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry."
1 Kings 8:66: "the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all"
2 Kings 11:14: "and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent"
2 Chronicles 7:10: "the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness"
2 Chronicles 23:13: "and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments"
Esther 5:9: "Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman"
Esther 5:14: "may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet."
Job 3:22: " Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?"
Psalms 35:26: "Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonor"
Psalms 113:9: "He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD."
Psalms 126:3: "great things for us; whereof we are glad."
Proverbs 2:14: " Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;"
Proverbs 15:13: " A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken."
Proverbs 17:5: "the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished."
Proverbs 17:22: " A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones."
Ecclesiastes 2:10: "from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all"
Isaiah 24:7: "the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh."









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