Deuteronomy 24:5
When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
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Cheer
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Acts 27:36
Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat.
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θαρσέω
tharséō · thar-seh'-o
5 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
to have courage
Strong's KJV usage: :--be of good cheer (comfort).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 9:2Strong's last: Acts 23:11
Open full G2293 profile →ἀποβολή
apobolḗ · ap-ob-ol-ay'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
rejection; figuratively, loss
Strong's KJV usage: :--casting away, loss.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 27:22Strong's last: Acts 27:22
Open full G580 profile →εὐθυμέω
euthyméō · yoo-thoo-meh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to cheer up, i.e. (intransitively) be cheerful; neuter comparative (adverbially) more cheerfully
Strong's KJV usage: :--be of good cheer (merry).
Strong's first: Acts 27:25Strong's last: Acts 27:25
Open full G2114 profile →εὔθυμος
eúthymos · yoo'-thoo-mos
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
in fine spirits, i.e. cheerful
Strong's KJV usage: :--of good cheer, the more cheerfully.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 27:36Strong's last: Acts 27:36
Open full G2115 profile →טוֹב
ṭôwb · tobe
1 times translated as this KJV form32 total Strong's occurrences
to be (transitively, do or make) good (or well) in the widest sense
Strong's KJV usage: be (do) better, cheer, be (do, seem) good, (make) goodly, × please, (be, do, go, play) well.
Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 11:9Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 11:9
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G2293
For they all saw him, and were troubled. And immediately he talked with them, and saith unto them, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.
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cheer
CHEER, verb transitive
1. To salute with shouts of joy, or cheers.
2. To dispel gloom, sorrow, silence or apathy; to cause to rejoice; to gladden; to make cheerful; as, to cheer a lonely desert; the cheering rays of the sun; good news cheers the heart.
3. To infuse life; spirit, animation; to incite; to encourage; as, to cheer the hounds.
CHEER, verb intransitive To grow cheerful; to become gladsome, or joyous.
At sight of thee my gloomy soul cheers up.
CHEER up, my lads.
CHEER, noun
1. A shout of joy; as, they gave three cheers.
2. A state of gladness or joy; a state of animation, above gloom and depression of spirits, but below mirth, gayety and jollity.
Son, be of good cheer thy sins are forgiven thee. Matthew 9:2.
Then were they all of good cheer and they also took some meat. Acts 27:22.
3. Mirth; gayety; jollity; as at a feast.
4. Invitation to gayety.
5. Entertainment; that which makes cheerful; provisions for a feast.
The table was loaded with good cheer
6. Air of countenance, noting a greater or less degree of cheerfulness.
His words their drooping cheer Enlightened.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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