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:

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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."

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