Lexicon :: Strong's H8056 - śāmēaḥ

“You are to hold a seven-day festival for the LORD your God in the place he chooses, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, and you will have abundant joy.

All the people went up after him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth split open from the sound.[fn]

“The priest Zadok and the prophet Nathan have anointed him king in Gihon. They have gone up from there rejoicing. The town has been in an uproar; that’s the noise you heard.

Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea; they were eating, drinking, and rejoicing.

On the fifteenth day[fn] he sent the people away. So they blessed the king and went to their homes[fn] rejoicing and with happy hearts for all the goodness that the LORD had done for his servant David and for his people Israel.

She looked, and there was the king standing by the pillar according to the custom. The commanders and the trumpeters were by the king, and all the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets. Athaliah tore her clothes and screamed “Treason! Treason! ”

Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice,

and let them say among the nations, “The LORD reigns! ”

On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people home,[fn] rejoicing and with happy hearts for the goodness the LORD had done for David, for Solomon, and for his people Israel.

As she looked, there was the king standing by his pillar[fn] at the entrance. The commanders and the trumpeters were by the king, and all the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets while the singers with musical instruments were leading the praise. Athaliah tore her clothes and screamed, “Treason! Treason! ”

That day Haman left full of joy and in good spirits.[fn] But when Haman saw Mordecai at the King’s Gate, and Mordecai didn’t rise or tremble in fear at his presence, Haman was filled with rage toward Mordecai.

His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows seventy-five feet[fn] tall. Ask the king in the morning to hang Mordecai on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows constructed.

Let those who rejoice at my misfortune

be disgraced and humiliated;

let those who exalt themselves over me

be clothed with shame and reproach.

He gives the childless woman a household,

making her the joyful mother of children.

Hallelujah!

The LORD had done great things for us;

we were joyful.

from those who enjoy doing evil

and celebrate perversion,

A joyful heart makes a face cheerful,

but a sad heart produces a broken spirit.

The one who mocks the poor insults his Maker,

and one who rejoices over calamity

will not go unpunished.

A joyful heart is good medicine,

but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

All that my eyes desired, I did not deny them. I did not refuse myself any pleasure, for I took pleasure in all my struggles. This was my reward for all my struggles.

The new wine mourns;

the vine withers.

All the carousers now groan.