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Lexicon :: Strong's H8057 - śimḥâ

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שִׂמְחָה
Transliteration
śimḥâ
Pronunciation
sim-khaw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2268b

Strong’s Definitions

שִׂמְחָה simchâh, sim-khaw'; from H8056; blithesomeness or glee, (religious or festival):—× exceeding(-ly), gladness, joy(-fulness), mirth, pleasure, rejoice(-ing).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 94x

The KJV translates Strong's H8057 in the following manner: joy (44x), gladness (31x), mirth (8x), rejoice (3x), rejoicing (2x), miscellaneous (6x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 94x
The KJV translates Strong's H8057 in the following manner: joy (44x), gladness (31x), mirth (8x), rejoice (3x), rejoicing (2x), miscellaneous (6x).

  1. joy, mirth, gladness

    1. mirth, gladness, joy, gaiety, pleasure

    2. joy (of God)

    3. glad result, happy issue

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שִׂמְחָה simchâh, sim-khaw'; from H8056; blithesomeness or glee, (religious or festival):—× exceeding(-ly), gladness, joy(-fulness), mirth, pleasure, rejoice(-ing).
STRONGS H8057: Abbreviations
שִׂמְחָה 93 noun feminine joy, gladness, mirth; — absolute שׂ׳ Genesis 31:37 +, construct שִׂמְחַת Isaiah 9:2 +; suffix שִׂמְחָתִי Psalm 137:6, etc.; plural שְׂמָחוֺת Psalm 16:11, תֹ- Psalm 45:16; —
1. mirth, gladness, e.g. in festivity, Genesis 31:27 (E), Psalm 137:3; Psalm 137:6, 1 Kings 1:40; 1 Samuel 18:6; Isaiah 9:2 (twice in verse); Isaiah 16:10; Psalm 45:16; יוֺם מִשְׁתֶּה וְשׂ׳ Esther 9:17, 18, 22 compare (יוֺם omitted) Esther 9:19 (+ יוֺם טוֺב), Esther 9:22 (|| יוֺם טוֺם), + 5 times, + קוֺל שׂ׳ Jeremiah 7:34 = Jeremiah 16:9 = Jeremiah 25:10 = Jeremiah 33:11; joy of heart Proverbs 14:10, 13; Ecclesiastes 5:19; Songs 3:11, compare (of inward joy) Jonah 4:6; Proverbs 15:23; Proverbs 21:15; = gaiety, pleasure Isaiah 22:13; Ecclesiastes 2:1, 2, 10; Ecclesiastes 8:15; Ecclesiastes 9:7, בֵּית שׂ׳ Ecclesiastes 7:4; חָנֵף שׂ׳ Job 20:5, of foolish Proverbs 15:21; Proverbs 21:17; malicious joy Ezekiel 35:15 (ל of thing), so כָּללֵֿבָב שׂ׳ Ezekiel 36:5.
2. 46 (especially Psalms Chronicles) religious: 2 Samuel 6:12 || 1 Chronicles 15:16, 25; Joel 1:16 +; יוֺם שׂ׳ Numbers 10:10 (P); עָשָׂה שׂ׳ i.e. make a (sacred) festivity 2 Chronicles 30:23; Nehemiah 8:12; Nehemiah 12:27; שִׂמְחַת עוֺלָם Isaiah 35:10 = Isaiah 51:11; Isaiah 61:7; שׂ׳ with עַל person Nehemiah 12:44; joy of heart Isaiah 30:29; Jeremiah 15:16; as gift of י׳ Psalm 4:8; Psalm 21:7 + 7 times + (in mockery) Isaiah 66:5.
† 3. joy of י׳ Zephaniah 3:17.
† 4. glad result, gleeful issue Psalm 106:5 (|| טוֺבָה), Proverbs 10:28; Proverbs 12:20 (Gr אֱמֻנָה, Toy מִשְׁפָּט; opposed to מִרְמָה).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

31:27; 31:37

Numbers

10:10

1 Samuel

18:6

2 Samuel

6:12

1 Kings

1:40

1 Chronicles

15:16; 15:25

2 Chronicles

30:23

Nehemiah

8:12; 12:27; 12:44

Esther

9:17; 9:18; 9:19; 9:22; 9:22

Job

20:5

Psalms

4:8; 16:11; 21:7; 45:16; 45:16; 106:5; 137:3; 137:6; 137:6

Proverbs

10:28; 12:20; 14:10; 14:13; 15:21; 15:23; 21:15; 21:17

Ecclesiastes

2:1; 2:2; 2:10; 5:19; 7:4; 8:15; 9:7

Song of Songs

3:11

Isaiah

9:2; 9:2; 16:10; 22:13; 30:29; 35:10; 51:11; 61:7; 66:5

Jeremiah

7:34; 15:16; 16:9; 25:10; 33:11

Ezekiel

35:15; 36:5

Joel

1:16

Jonah

4:6

Zephaniah

3:17

H8057

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8057 matches the Hebrew שִׂמְחָה (śimḥâ),
which occurs 94 times in 89 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 31:27–Pro 14:10)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:27 - “Why did you flee secretly and [fn]deceive me, and did not tell me so that I might have sent you away with joy H8057 and with songs, with timbrel and with lyre;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:10 - “Also in the day of your gladness H8057 and in your appointed [fn]feasts, and on the first days of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be as a reminder of you before your God. I am the LORD your God.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:47 - “Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy H8057 and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:23 - Now the lords of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice, H8057 for they said,
“Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hands.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:6 - It happened as they were coming, when David returned from killing the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy H8057 and with [fn]musical instruments.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:12 - Now it was told King David, saying, “The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, on account of the ark of God.” David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with gladness. H8057

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:40 - All the people went up after him, and the people [fn]were playing on flutes and rejoicing with great joy, H8057 so that the earth [fn]shook at their noise.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 12:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:40 - Moreover those who were near to them, even as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought food on donkeys, camels, mules and on oxen, great quantities of flour cakes, fig cakes and bunches of raisins, wine, oil, oxen and sheep. There was joy H8057 indeed in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:16 - Then David spoke to the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their relatives the singers, with instruments of music, harps, lyres, loud-sounding cymbals, to raise sounds of joy. H8057

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:25 - So it was David, with the elders of Israel and the captains over thousands, who went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the house of Obed-edom with joy. H8057

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:9 - Then the people rejoiced because they had offered so willingly, for they made their offering to the LORD with a whole heart, and King David also rejoiced greatly.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:17 - “Since I know, O my God, that You try the heart and delight in uprightness, I, in the integrity of my heart, have willingly offered all these things; so now with joy H8057 I have seen Your people, who are present here, make their offerings willingly to You.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:22 - So they ate and drank that day before the LORD with great gladness. H8057 And they made Solomon the son of David king a second time, and they anointed him as ruler for the LORD and Zadok as priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:27 - Every man of Judah and Jerusalem returned with Jehoshaphat at their head, returning to Jerusalem with joy, H8057 for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 23:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:18 - Moreover, Jehoiada placed the offices of the house of the LORD under the [fn]authority of the Levitical priests, whom David had assigned over the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses—with rejoicing H8057 and singing according to the [fn]order of David.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 29:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:30 - Moreover, King Hezekiah and the officials ordered the Levites to sing praises to the LORD with the words of David and Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with joy, H8057 and bowed down and worshiped.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:21 - The sons of Israel present in Jerusalem celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy, H8057 and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day after day with loud instruments to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:23 - Then the whole assembly decided to celebrate the feast another seven days, so they celebrated the seven days with joy. H8057

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:26 - So there was great joy H8057 in Jerusalem, because there was nothing like this in Jerusalem since the days of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:12 - Yet many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had seen the first [fn]temple, wept with a loud voice when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, while many shouted aloud for joy, H8057

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:13 - so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the shout of joy H8057 from the sound of the weeping of the people, for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the sound was heard far away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:22 - And they observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy, H8057 for the LORD had caused them to rejoice, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them to [fn]encourage them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:12 - All the people went away to eat, to drink, to send portions and to [fn]celebrate a great festival, H8057 because they understood the words which had been made known to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:17 - The entire assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and lived in [fn]them. The sons of Israel had indeed not done so from the days of Joshua the son of Nun to that day. And there was great rejoicing. H8057

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 12:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:27 - Now at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought out the Levites from all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem so that they might celebrate the dedication with gladness, H8057 with hymns of thanksgiving and with songs to the accompaniment of cymbals, harps and lyres.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 12:43

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:43 - and on that day they offered great sacrifices and rejoiced because God had given them great joy, H8057 even the women and children rejoiced, so that the joy H8057 of Jerusalem was heard from afar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 12:44

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:44 - On that day men were also appointed over the chambers for the stores, the contributions, the first fruits and the tithes, to gather into them from the fields of the cities the portions required by the law for the priests and Levites; for Judah rejoiced H8057 over the priests and Levites who [fn]served.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:16 - For the Jews there was light and gladness H8057 and joy and honor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:17 - In each and every province and in each and every city, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree arrived, there was gladness H8057 and joy for the Jews, a feast and a [fn]holiday. And many among the peoples of the land became Jews, for the dread of the Jews had fallen on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:17 - This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar, and on the fourteenth [fn]day they rested and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing. H8057

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:18 - But the Jews who were in Susa assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth [fn]of the same month, and they rested on the fifteenth [fn]day and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing. H8057

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:19 - Therefore the Jews of the rural areas, who live in the rural towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a [fn]holiday for rejoicing H8057 and feasting and sending portions of food to one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:22 - because on those days the Jews [fn]rid themselves of their enemies, and it was a month which was turned for them from sorrow into gladness H8057 and from mourning into a [fn]holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and rejoicing H8057 and sending portions of food to one another and gifts to the poor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:5 - That the triumphing of the wicked is short,
And the joy H8057 of the godless momentary?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 4:7 - You have put gladness H8057 in my heart,
More than when their grain and new wine abound.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 16:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:11 - You will make known to me the path of life;
In Your presence is fullness of joy; H8057
In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:6 - For You make him [fn]most blessed forever;
You make him joyful with gladness H8057 in Your presence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:11 - You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;
You have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness, H8057

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 43:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 43:4 - Then I will go to the altar of God,
To God [fn]my exceeding H8057 joy; H8057
And upon the lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 45:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:15 - They will be led forth with gladness H8057 and rejoicing;
They will enter into the King’s palace.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 51:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:8 - [fn]Make me to hear joy and gladness, H8057
Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 68:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:3 - But let the righteous be glad; let them exult before God;
Yes, let them rejoice with gladness. H8057

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 97:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:11 - Light is sown like seed for the righteous
And gladness H8057 for the upright in heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 100:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 100:2 - Serve the LORD with gladness; H8057
Come before Him with joyful singing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:5 - That I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones,
That I may rejoice in the gladness H8057 of Your nation,
That I may glory with Your [fn]inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 137:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:3 - For there our captors [fn]demanded of us [fn]songs,
And our tormentors mirth, H8057 saying,
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 137:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:6 - May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
If I do not remember you,
If I do not [fn]exalt Jerusalem
Above my chief joy. H8057

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 10:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:28 - The hope of the righteous is gladness, H8057
But the expectation of the wicked perishes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:20 - Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil,
But counselors of peace have joy. H8057

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:10 - The heart knows its own bitterness,
And a stranger does not share its joy. H8057

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