Strong's #8055: samach (pronounced saw-makh')
a primitive root; probably to brighten up, i.e. (figuratively) be (causatively, make) blithe or gleesome:--cheer up, be (make) glad, (have, make) joy(-ful), be (make) merry, (cause to, make to) rejoice, X very.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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śâmach
1) to rejoice, be glad
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to rejoice
1a2) to rejoice (arrogantly), exult (at)
1a3) to rejoice (religiously)
1b) (Piel) to cause to rejoice, gladden, make glad
1c) (Hiphil) to cause to rejoice, gladden, make glad
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 155 times:
Zephaniah 3:14: "of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter"
Zechariah 2:10: "Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell"
Zechariah 4:10: "hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet"
Zechariah 10:7: "shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see"
Zechariah 10:7: "wine: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD."
