Strong's #5463: chairo (pronounced khah'-ee-ro)
a primary verb; to be "cheer"ful, i.e. calmly happy or well-off; impersonally, especially as salutation (on meeting or parting), be well:--farewell, be glad, God speed, greeting, hall, joy(- fully), rejoice.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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chairō
1) to rejoice, be glad
2) to rejoice exceedingly
3) to be well, thrive
4) in salutations, hail!
5) at the beginning of letters: to give one greeting, salute
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primary verb
Citing in TDNT: 9:359, 1298
Usage:
This word is used 74 times:
2 Corinthians 13:9: "For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are"
2 Corinthians 13:11: "Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace;"
Philippians 1:18: "is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice."
Philippians 1:18: "I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice."
Philippians 2:17: "service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all."
Philippians 2:18: "same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me."
Philippians 2:28: "when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful."
Philippians 3:1: "Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the"
Philippians 4:4: " Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice."
Philippians 4:4: "always: and again I say, Rejoice."
Philippians 4:10: "But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last"
Colossians 1:24: "Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you,"
Colossians 2:5: "I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your"
1 Thessalonians 3:9: "all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before"
1 Thessalonians 5:16: " Rejoice evermore."
James 1:1: "tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting."
1 Peter 4:13: "But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when"
1 Peter 4:13: "his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy."
2 John 1:4: " I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking"
2 John 1:10: "your house, neither bid him Godspeed:"
2 John 1:11: "For he that biddeth him Godspeed is partaker of his evil deeds."
3 John 1:3: "For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the"
Revelation 11:10: "upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry,"
Revelation 19:7: " Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for"
