שִׂמְחָה

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1. Genesis 31:27בְּשִׂמְחָ֥הwith gladness

   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.

2. Numbers 10:10שִׂמְחַתְכֶ֥םrejoicing your

   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 fellowship offerings to serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.”

3. Deuteronomy 28:47בְּשִׂמְחָ֖הwith joy

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

4. Judges 16:23וּלְשִׂמְחָ֑הand for joy

   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.”

5. 1 Samuel 18:6בְּשִׂמְחָ֖הwith joy

   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.

6. 2 Samuel 6:12בְּשִׂמְחָֽהwith rejoicing

   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.

7. 1 Kings 1:40שִׂמְחָ֣הjoy

   All the people followed him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth was split by the sound.

8. 1 Chronicles 12:40שִׂמְחָ֖הjoy

   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.

9. 1 Chronicles 15:16לְשִׂמְחָֽה פof joy

   David 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.

10. 1 Chronicles 15:25בְּשִׂמְחָֽה סwith joy

    So 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.

11. 1 Chronicles 29:9שִׂמְחָ֥הjoy

    And 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.

12. 1 Chronicles 29:17בְשִׂמְחָ֖הwith joy

    I 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.

13. 1 Chronicles 29:22בְּשִׂמְחָ֣הwith joy

    That 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.

14. 2 Chronicles 20:27בְּשִׂמְחָ֑הwith joy

    Then 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.

15. 2 Chronicles 23:18בְּשִׂמְחָ֣הwith joy

    Moreover, 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 is written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and song, as ordained by David.

16. 2 Chronicles 29:30לְשִׂמְחָ֔הto joy

    Then 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 their heads and worshiped.

17. 2 Chronicles 30:21בְּשִׂמְחָ֣הwith joy

    The 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.

18. 2 Chronicles 30:23שִׂמְחָֽהjoy

    The whole assembly agreed to observe seven more days, so they observed seven days with joy.

19. 2 Chronicles 30:26שִׂמְחָֽה־joy

    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.

20. Ezra 3:12בְשִׂמְחָ֖הwith gladness

    But 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.

21. Ezra 3:13הַשִּׂמְחָ֔ה<the> happiness

    The 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.

22. Ezra 6:22בְּשִׂמְחָ֑הwith joy

    For 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.

23. Nehemiah 8:12שִׂמְחָ֣הjoy

    Then 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.

24. Nehemiah 8:17שִׂמְחָ֖הjoy

    The whole assembly who 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.

25. Nehemiah 12:27וְשִׂמְחָה֙and joy

    At 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.

26. Nehemiah 12:43שִׂמְחָ֣הjoy

    On 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.

27. Nehemiah 12:43שִׂמְחַ֥ת[the] rejoicing of

    On 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.

28. Nehemiah 12:44שִׂמְחַ֣ת[the] joy of

    And 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.

29. Esther 8:16וְשִׂמְחָ֑הand gladness

    For the Jews it was a time of light and gladness, of joy and honor.

30. Esther 8:17שִׂמְחָ֤הgladness

    In 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.

31. Esther 9:17וְשִׂמְחָֽהand joy

    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.

32. Esther 9:18וְשִׂמְחָֽהand joy

    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.

33. Esther 9:19שִׂמְחָ֥הjoy

    This 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.

34. Esther 9:22לְשִׂמְחָ֔הinto joy

    as 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.

35. Esther 9:22וְשִׂמְחָ֔הand joy

    as 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.

36. Job 20:5וְשִׂמְחַ֖תand [the] gladness of

    the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?

37. Psalms 4:7שִׂמְחָ֣הjoy

    You have filled my heart with more joy than when grain and new wine abound.

38. Psalms 16:11שְׂ֭מָחוֹתgladness<es>

    You 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.

39. Psalms 21:6בְ֝שִׂמְחָ֗הwith gladness

    For You grant him blessings forever; You cheer him with joy in Your presence.

40. Psalms 30:11שִׂמְחָֽהjoy

    You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,

41. Psalms 43:4שִׂמְחַ֪ת[the] joy of

    Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.

42. Psalms 45:15בִּשְׂמָחֹ֣תwith joy<s>

    They are led in with joy and gladness; they enter the palace of the king.

43. Psalms 51:8וְשִׂמְחָ֑הand gladness

    Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.

44. Psalms 68:3בְשִׂמְחָֽהwith gladness

    But the righteous will be glad and rejoice before God; they will celebrate with joy.

45. Psalms 97:11שִׂמְחָֽהjoy

    Light shines on the righteous, gladness on the upright in heart.

46. Psalms 100:2בְּשִׂמְחָ֑הwith joy

    Serve the LORD with gladness; come into His presence with joyful songs.

47. Psalms 106:5בְּשִׂמְחַ֣תin [the] joy of

    that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, and give glory with Your inheritance.

48. Psalms 137:3שִׂמְחָ֑הgladness

    for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”

49. Psalms 137:6שִׂמְחָתִֽיjoy my

    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!

50. Proverbs 10:28שִׂמְחָ֑ה[is] joy

    The hope of the righteous is joy, but the expectations of the wicked will perish.