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שִׂמְחָה

sim.chahH8057

joy

Used 94 times in the tagged text.

What it means

  • joy, mirth, gladness
Full dictionary entry (technical)
  • 1) joy, mirth, gladness
  • 1a) mirth, gladness, joy, gaiety, pleasure
  • 1b) joy (of God)
  • 1c) glad result, happy issue

Same idea, other words · Joy and rejoicing

Joy is a command and a gift throughout Scripture, sometimes loud and sometimes quiet.

Where it appears

  • Genesis1
  • Numbers1
  • Deuteronomy1
  • Judges1
  • 1 Samuel1
  • 2 Samuel1
  • 1 Kings1
  • 1 Chronicles6
  • 2 Chronicles6
  • Ezra3
  • Nehemiah6
  • Esther7
  • Job1
  • Psalms13
  • Proverbs8
  • Ecclesiastes8
  • Song of Songs1
  • Isaiah15
  • Jeremiah7
  • Ezekiel2
  • Joel1
  • Jonah1
  • Zephaniah1
  • Zechariah1

Every use · 51–94 of 94 · BSB

  1. Proverbs 12:20שִׂמְחָֽהjoy

    Deceit is in the hearts of those who devise evil, but the counselors of peace have joy.

  2. Proverbs 14:10וּ֝בְשִׂמְחָת֗וֹand in joy its

    The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares in its joy.

  3. Proverbs 14:13שִׂמְחָ֣הjoy

    Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow.

  4. Proverbs 15:21שִׂמְחָ֣ה[is] a joy

    Folly is joy to one who lacks judgment, but a man of understanding walks a straight path.

  5. Proverbs 15:23שִׂמְחָ֣הjoy

    A man takes joy in a fitting reply— and how good is a timely word!

  6. Proverbs 21:15שִׂמְחָ֣ה[is] a joy

    Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity.

  7. Proverbs 21:17שִׂמְחָ֑הpleasure

    He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never be rich.

  8. Ecclesiastes 2:1בְשִׂמְחָ֖הwith pleasure

    I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good!” But it proved to be futile.

  9. Ecclesiastes 2:2וּלְשִׂמְחָ֖הand of pleasure

    I said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”

  10. Ecclesiastes 2:10שִׂמְחָ֗הpleasure

    Anything 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.

  11. Ecclesiastes 2:26וְשִׂמְחָ֑הand joy

    To 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.

  12. Ecclesiastes 5:20בְּשִׂמְחַ֥תwith [the] joy of

    For a man seldom considers the days of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart.

  13. Ecclesiastes 7:4שִׂמְחָֽהgladness

    The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.

  14. Ecclesiastes 8:15הַשִּׂמְחָ֔ה<the> gladness

    So 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.

  15. Ecclesiastes 9:7בְּשִׂמְחָה֙with gladness

    Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:

  16. Song of Songs 3:11שִׂמְחַ֥ת[the] rejoicing of

    Come out, O daughters of Zion, and gaze at King Solomon, wearing the crown his mother bestowed on the day of his wedding— the day of his heart’s rejoicing.

  17. Isaiah 9:3הַשִּׂמְחָ֑הthe rejoicing

    You 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.

  18. Isaiah 9:3כְּשִׂמְחַ֣תlike [the] rejoicing

    You 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.

  19. Isaiah 16:10שִׂמְחָ֤הgladness

    Joy 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.

  20. Isaiah 22:13וְשִׂמְחָ֗הand gladness

    But 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!”

  21. Isaiah 24:11שִׂמְחָ֔הgladness

    In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.

  22. Isaiah 29:19שִׂמְחָ֑הjoy

    The humble will increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

  23. Isaiah 30:29וְשִׂמְחַ֣תand gladness of

    You 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.

  24. Isaiah 35:10וְשִׂמְחַ֥תand gladness of

    So 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.

  25. Isaiah 35:10וְשִׂמְחָה֙and gladness

    So 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.

  26. Isaiah 51:3וְשִׂמְחָה֙and gladness

    For 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.

  27. Isaiah 51:11וְשִׂמְחַ֥תand gladness of

    So 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.

  28. Isaiah 51:11וְשִׂמְחָה֙and gladness

    So 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.

  29. Isaiah 55:12בְשִׂמְחָ֣הin joy

    You 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.

  30. Isaiah 61:7שִׂמְחַ֥תjoy of

    Instead 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.

  31. Isaiah 66:5בְשִׂמְחַתְכֶ֖םon joy your

    You 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.”

  32. Jeremiah 7:34שִׂמְחָ֔הgladness

    I 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.”

  33. Jeremiah 15:16וּלְשִׂמְחַ֣תand <into> [the] delight of

    Your 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.

  34. Jeremiah 16:9שִׂמְחָ֔הgladness

    For 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.

  35. Jeremiah 25:10שִׂמְחָ֔הgladness

    Moreover, 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.

  36. Jeremiah 31:7שִׂמְחָ֔הgladness

    For 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!’

  37. Jeremiah 33:11שִׂמְחָ֗הgladness

    the 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.

  38. Jeremiah 48:33שִׂמְחָ֥הjoy

    Joy 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.

  39. Ezekiel 35:15כְּשִׂמְחָ֨תְךָ֜according to rejoicing your

    As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

  40. Ezekiel 36:5בְּשִׂמְחַ֤תwith joy of

    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Surely in My burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who took My land as their own possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, so that its pastureland became plunder.

  41. Joel 1:16שִׂמְחָ֥הjoy

    Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes— joy and gladness from the house of our God?

  42. Jonah 4:6שִׂמְחָ֥הa joy

    So 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.

  43. Zephaniah 3:17בְּשִׂמְחָ֗הwith joy

    The 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.”

  44. Zechariah 8:19וּלְשִׂמְחָ֔הand <into> gladness

    “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.”

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