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:
Proverbs 12:20: "evil: but to the counselors of peace is joy."
Proverbs 14:10: "and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy."
Proverbs 14:13: "the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness."
Proverbs 15:21: "Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly."
Proverbs 15:23: "A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good"
Proverbs 21:15: " It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity."
Proverbs 21:17: "He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not"
Ecclesiastes 2:1: "Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this"
Ecclesiastes 2:2: "I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?"
Ecclesiastes 2:10: "not my heart from any joy; for my heart"
Ecclesiastes 2:26: "that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail,"
Ecclesiastes 5:20: "because God answereth him in the joy of his heart."
Ecclesiastes 7:4: "but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth."
Ecclesiastes 8:15: "Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better"
Ecclesiastes 9:7: "Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart;"
Song of Solomon 3:11: "crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart."
Isaiah 9:3: "the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest,"
Isaiah 9:3: "the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide"
Isaiah 16:10: " And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing,"
Isaiah 22:13: "And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating"
Isaiah 24:11: "wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone."
Isaiah 29:19: "The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One"
Isaiah 30:29: "a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe"
Isaiah 35:10: "their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away."
Isaiah 51:3: "like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody."
Isaiah 51:11: "with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness"
Isaiah 51:11: "their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away."
Isaiah 55:12: "For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth"
Isaiah 61:7: "they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be"
Isaiah 66:5: "said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed."
Jeremiah 7:34: "and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom,"
Jeremiah 15:16: "them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by"
Jeremiah 16:9: "the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride."
Jeremiah 25:10: "them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride,"
Jeremiah 31:7: "saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations:"
Jeremiah 33:11: "The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride,"
Jeremiah 48:33: " And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab;"
Ezekiel 35:15: " As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so"
Ezekiel 36:5: "have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful"
Joel 1:16: "cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?"
Jonah 4:6: "to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of"
Zephaniah 3:17: "he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over"
Zechariah 8:19: "to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth"
