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H8056 · sâmêach · saw-may'-akh · Hebrew
blithe or gleeful
(be) glad, joyful, (making) merry((-hearted), -ily), rejoice(-ing).
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Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.
And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that ye have heard.
Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.
And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.
Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai.
Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?
