1) joy, mirth, gladness 1a) mirth, gladness, joy, gaiety, pleasure 1b) joy (of God) 1c) glad result, happy issue
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H8057 — שִׂמְחָה
sim.chah · joy · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 31:27 · בְּשִׂמְחָ֥הWhy did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.Numbers 10:10 · שִׂמְחַתְכֶ֥םAnd on your joyous occasions, your appointed feasts, and the beginning of each month, you are to blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and peace offerings to serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.”Deuteronomy 28:47 · בְּשִׂמְחָ֖הBecause you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,Judges 16:23 · וּלְשִׂמְחָ֑הNow the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”1 Samuel 18:6 · בְּשִׂמְחָ֖הAs the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instruments.2 Samuel 6:12 · בְּשִׂמְחָֽה׃Now it was reported to King David, “The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and had the ark of God brought up from the house of Obed-edom into the City of David with rejoicing.1 Kings 1:40 · שִׂמְחָ֣הAll the people followed him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth was split by the sound.1 Chronicles 12:40 · שִׂמְחָ֖הAnd their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.1 Chronicles 15:16 · לְשִׂמְחָֽה׃ פDavid also told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers to lift up their voices with joy, accompanied by musical instruments—harps, lyres, and cymbals.1 Chronicles 15:25 · בְּשִׂמְחָֽה׃ סSo David, the elders of Israel, and the commanders of thousands went with rejoicing to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the house of Obed-edom.1 Chronicles 29:9 · שִׂמְחָ֥הAnd the people rejoiced at the willing response of their leaders, for they had given to the LORD freely and wholeheartedly. And King David also rejoiced greatly.1 Chronicles 29:17 · בְשִׂמְחָ֖הI know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.1 Chronicles 29:22 · בְּשִׂמְחָ֣הThat day they ate and drank with great joy in the presence of the LORD. Then, for a second time, they designated David’s son Solomon as king, anointing him before the LORD as ruler, and Zadok as the priest.2 Chronicles 20:27 · בְּשִׂמְחָ֑הThen all the men of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat at their head, returned joyfully to Jerusalem, for the LORD had made them rejoice over their enemies.2 Chronicles 23:18 · בְּשִׂמְחָ֣הMoreover, Jehoiada put the oversight of the house of the LORD into the hands of the Levitical priests, whom David had appointed over the house of the LORD, to offer burnt offerings to the LORD as written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and song, as ordained by David.2 Chronicles 29:30 · לְשִׂמְחָ֔הThen King Hezekiah and his officials ordered the Levites to sing praises to the LORD in the words of David and of Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with gladness and bowed down and worshiped.2 Chronicles 30:21 · בְּשִׂמְחָ֣הThe Israelites who were present in Jerusalem celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy, and the Levites and priests praised the LORD day after day, accompanied by loud instruments of praise to the LORD.2 Chronicles 30:23 · שִׂמְחָֽה׃The whole assembly agreed to observe seven more days, so they observed seven days with joy.2 Chronicles 30:26 · שִׂמְחָֽה־So there was great rejoicing in Jerusalem, for nothing like this had happened there since the days of Solomon son of David king of Israel.Ezra 3:12 · בְשִׂמְחָ֖הBut many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads who had seen the first temple wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple. Still, many others shouted joyfully.Ezra 3:13 · הַשִּׂמְחָ֔הThe people could not distinguish the shouts of joy from the sound of weeping, because the people were making so much noise. And the sound was heard from afar.Ezra 6:22 · בְּשִׂמְחָ֑הFor seven days they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread with joy, because the LORD had made them joyful and turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them to strengthen their hands in the work on the house of the God of Israel.Nehemiah 8:12 · שִׂמְחָ֣הThen all the people began to eat and drink, to send out portions, and to rejoice greatly, because they understood the words that had been made known to them.Nehemiah 8:17 · שִׂמְחָ֖הThe whole assembly that had returned from exile made booths and lived in them. From the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day, the Israelites had not celebrated like this. And there was great rejoicing.Nehemiah 12:27 · וְשִׂמְחָה֙At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from all their homes and brought to Jerusalem to celebrate the joyous dedication with thanksgiving and singing, accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres.Nehemiah 12:43 · שִׂמְחָ֣ה · שִׂמְחַ֥תOn that day they offered great sacrifices, rejoicing because God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced, so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard from afar.Nehemiah 12:44 · שִׂמְחַ֣תAnd on that same day men were appointed over the rooms that housed the supplies, contributions, firstfruits, and tithes. The portions specified by the Law for the priests and Levites were gathered into these storerooms from the fields of the villages, because Judah rejoiced over the priests and Levites who were serving.Esther 8:16 · וְשִׂמְחָ֑הFor the Jews it was a time of light and gladness, of joy and honor.Esther 8:17 · שִׂמְחָ֤הIn every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.Esther 9:17 · וְשִׂמְחָֽה׃This was done on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested, making it a day of feasting and joy.Esther 9:18 · וְשִׂמְחָֽה׃The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. So they rested on the fifteenth day, making it a day of feasting and joy.Esther 9:19 · שִׂמְחָ֥הThis is why the rural Jews, who live in the villages, observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting. It is a holiday for sending gifts to one another.Esther 9:22 · לְשִׂמְחָ֔ה · וְשִׂמְחָ֔הas the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.Job 20:5 · וְשִׂמְחַ֖תthe triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?Psalm 4:7 · שִׂמְחָ֣הYou have filled my heart with more joy than when grain and new wine abound.Psalm 16:11 · שְׂ֭מָחוֹתYou have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand.Psalm 21:6 · בְ֝שִׂמְחָ֗הFor You grant him blessings forever; You cheer him with joy in Your presence.Psalm 30:11 · שִׂמְחָֽה׃You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,Psalm 43:4 · שִׂמְחַ֪תThen I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.Psalm 45:15 · בִּשְׂמָחֹ֣תThey are led in with joy and gladness; they enter the palace of the king.Psalm 51:8 · וְשִׂמְחָ֑הLet me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.Psalm 68:3 · בְשִׂמְחָֽה׃But the righteous will be glad and rejoice before God; they will celebrate with joy.Psalm 97:11 · שִׂמְחָֽה׃Light shines on the righteous, gladness on the upright in heart.Psalm 100:2 · בְּשִׂמְחָ֑הServe the LORD with gladness; come into His presence with joyful songs.Psalm 106:5 · בְּשִׂמְחַ֣תthat I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, and give glory with Your inheritance.Psalm 137:3 · שִׂמְחָ֑הfor there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”Psalm 137:6 · שִׂמְחָתִֽי׃May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!Proverbs 10:28 · שִׂמְחָ֑הThe hope of the righteous is joy, but the expectations of the wicked will perish.Proverbs 12:20 · שִׂמְחָֽה׃Deceit is in the hearts of those who devise evil, but the counselors of peace have joy.Proverbs 14:10 · וּ֝בְשִׂמְחָת֗וֹThe heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares in its joy.Proverbs 14:13 · שִׂמְחָ֣הEven in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow.Proverbs 15:21 · שִׂמְחָ֣הFolly is joy to one who lacks judgment, but a man of understanding walks a straight path.Proverbs 15:23 · שִׂמְחָ֣הA man takes joy in a fitting reply—and how good is a timely word!Proverbs 21:15 · שִׂמְחָ֣הJustice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity.Proverbs 21:17 · שִׂמְחָ֑הHe who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never be rich.Ecclesiastes 2:1 · בְשִׂמְחָ֖הI said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good!” But it proved to be futile.Ecclesiastes 2:2 · וּלְשִׂמְחָ֖הI said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”Ecclesiastes 2:10 · שִׂמְחָ֗הAnything my eyes desired, I did not deny myself. I refused my heart no pleasure. For my heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor.Ecclesiastes 2:26 · וְשִׂמְחָ֑הTo the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.Ecclesiastes 5:20 · בְּשִׂמְחַ֥תFor a man seldom considers the days of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart.Ecclesiastes 7:4 · שִׂמְחָֽה׃The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.Ecclesiastes 8:15 · הַשִּׂמְחָ֔הSo I commended the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be merry. For this joy will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.Ecclesiastes 9:7 · בְּשִׂמְחָה֙Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:Song of Solomon 3:11 · שִׂמְחַ֥תCome out, O daughters of Zion, and gaze at King Solomon, wearing the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding—the day of his heart’s rejoicing.Isaiah 9:3 · הַשִּׂמְחָ֑ה · כְּשִׂמְחַ֣תYou have enlarged the nation and increased its joy. The people rejoice before You as they rejoice at harvest time, as men rejoice in dividing the plunder.Isaiah 16:10 · שִׂמְחָ֤הJoy and gladness are removed from the orchard; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards. No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses; I have put an end to the cheering.Isaiah 22:13 · וְשִׂמְחָ֗הBut look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”Isaiah 24:11 · שִׂמְחָ֔הIn the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.Isaiah 29:19 · שִׂמְחָ֑הThe humble will increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.Isaiah 30:29 · וְשִׂמְחַ֣תYou will sing as on the night of a holy festival, and your heart will rejoice like one who walks to the music of a flute, going up to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.Isaiah 35:10 · וְשִׂמְחַ֥ת · וְשִׂמְחָה֙So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.Isaiah 51:3 · וְשִׂמְחָה֙For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.Isaiah 51:11 · וְשִׂמְחַ֥ת · וְשִׂמְחָה֙So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.Isaiah 55:12 · בְשִׂמְחָ֣הYou will indeed go out with joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.Isaiah 61:7 · שִׂמְחַ֥תInstead of shame, My people will have a double portion, and instead of humiliation, they will rejoice in their share; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.Isaiah 66:5 · בְשִׂמְחַתְכֶ֖םYou who tremble at His word, hear the word of the LORD: “Your brothers who hate you and exclude you because of My name have said, ‘Let the LORD be glorified that we may see your joy!’ But they will be put to shame.”Jeremiah 7:34 · שִׂמְחָ֔הI will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”Jeremiah 15:16 · וּלְשִׂמְחַ֣תYour words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.Jeremiah 16:9 · שִׂמְחָ֔הFor this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.Jeremiah 25:10 · שִׂמְחָ֔הMoreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.Jeremiah 31:7 · שִׂמְחָ֔הFor this is what the LORD says: “Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations! Make your praises heard, and say, ‘O LORD, save Your people, the remnant of Israel!’Jeremiah 33:11 · שִׂמְחָ֗הthe sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those bringing thank offerings into the house of the LORD, saying: ‘Give thanks to the LORD of Hosts, for the LORD is good; His loving devotion endures forever.’ For I will restore the land from captivity as in former times, says the LORD.Jeremiah 48:33 · שִׂמְחָ֥הJoy and gladness are removed from the orchard and from the fields of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; their shouts are not for joy.Jonah 4:6 · שִׂמְחָ֥הSo the LORD God appointed a vine, and it grew up to provide shade over Jonah’s head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was greatly pleased with the plant.Zephaniah 3:17 · בְּשִׂמְחָ֗הThe LORD your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”Zechariah 8:19 · וּלְשִׂמְחָ֔ה“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace.”