H8057 - שִׂמְחָה (simchâh)

H8057 שִׂמְחָה (simchâh) sim-khaw'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

joy

Strong's Definition

blithesomeness or glee, (religious or festival)

Derivation: from H8056 (שָׂמֵחַ);

KJV Usage: [idiom] exceeding(-ly), gladness, joy(-fulness), mirth, pleasure, rejoice(-ing).

TWOT Reference: 2268b

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) joy, mirth, gladness

1a) mirth, gladness, joy, gaiety, pleasure

1b) joy (of God)

1c) glad result, happy issue

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G133 G2167 G5479

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) joy, mirth, gladness 1a) mirth, gladness, joy, gaiety, pleasure 1b) joy (of God) 1c) glad result, happy issue

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

שִׂמְחָה śimchâh BDB Definition: 1) joy, mirth, gladness 1a) mirth, gladness, joy, gaiety, pleasure 1b) joy (of God) 1c) glad result, happy issue Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H8056 Same Word by TWOT Number: 2268b Total KJV Occurrences: 97

Bible Occurrences (88)

31:27

10:10

28:47

16:23

18:6

6:12

1:40

12:40 15:16 15:25 29:9 29:17 29:22

20:27 23:18 29:30 30:21 30:23 30:26

3:12 3:13 6:22

8:12 8:17 12:27 12:43 12:44

8:16 8:17 9:17 9:18 9:19 9:22

20:5

4:7 16:11 21:6 30:11 43:4 45:15 51:8 68:3 97:11 100:2 106:5 137:3 137:6

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

2:1 2:2 2:10 2:26 5:20 7:4 8:15 9:7

9:3 16:10 22:13 24:11 29:19 30:29 35:10 51:3 51:11 55:12 61:7 66:5

7:34 15:16 16:9 25:10 31:7 33:11 48:33

35:15 36:5

1:16

4:6

3:17

8:19

Genesis 31:27

Why 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

And 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

Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,

Judges 16:23

Now 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

As 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

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

All 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

And 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.