Strong's #8057: simchah (pronounced sim-khaw')
from 8056; blithesomeness or glee, (religious or festival):--X exceeding(-ly), gladness, joy(-fulness), mirth, pleasure, rejoice(-ing).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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śimchâh
1) joy, mirth, gladness
1a) mirth, gladness, joy, gaiety, pleasure
1b) joy (of God)
1c) glad result, happy issue
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from H8056
Usage:
This word is used 93 times:
Genesis 31:27: "from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?"
Numbers 10:10: "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over"
Deuteronomy 28:47: "not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance"
Judges 16:23: "sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered"
1 Samuel 18:6: "and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of music."
2 Samuel 6:12: "from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with gladness."
1 Kings 1:40: "with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound"
1 Chronicles 12:40: "and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel."
1 Chronicles 15:16: "sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy."
1 Chronicles 15:25: "out of the house of Obed-edom with joy."
1 Chronicles 29:9: "also rejoiced with great joy."
1 Chronicles 29:17: "these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly"
1 Chronicles 29:22: "on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David"
2 Chronicles 20:27: "of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies."
2 Chronicles 23:18: "as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David."
2 Chronicles 29:30: "the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped."
2 Chronicles 30:21: "seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD"
2 Chronicles 30:23: "and they kept other seven days with gladness."
2 Chronicles 30:26: "So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon"
Ezra 3:12: "before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud"
Ezra 3:13: "discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for"
Ezra 6:22: "of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned"
Nehemiah 8:12: "portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that"
Nehemiah 8:17: "so. And there was very great gladness."
Nehemiah 12:27: "to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals,"
Nehemiah 12:43: "God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced:"
Nehemiah 12:43: "also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off."
Nehemiah 12:44: "and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites"
Esther 8:16: "The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honor."
Esther 8:17: "whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness,"
Esther 9:17: "and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness."
Esther 9:18: "thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness."
Esther 9:19: "the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good"
Esther 9:22: "and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning"
Esther 9:22: "and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending"
Job 20:5: "the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?"
Psalms 4:7: "Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased."
Psalms 16:11: "in thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore."
Psalms 21:6: "thou hast made him most blessed forever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance."
Psalms 30:11: "thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;"
Psalms 43:4: "of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God"
Psalms 45:15: " With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace."
Psalms 51:8: "Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice."
Psalms 68:3: "let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice."
Psalms 97:11: "Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart."
Psalms 100:2: "Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing."
Psalms 106:5: "the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance."
Psalms 137:3: "required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs"
Psalms 137:6: "Jerusalem above my chief joy."
Proverbs 10:28: "The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish."
