TBESH · H8057
שִׂמְחָה · sim.chah · joy
1) joy, mirth, gladness 1a) mirth, gladness, joy, gaiety, pleasure 1b) joy (of God) 1c) glad result, happy issue
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sim.chah H8057
שִׂמְחָה (sim.chah) means “joy” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
שִׂמְחָה Hebrew · H8057 94 tagged occurrences in 89 verses
Pronunciation guide: sim-khaw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
from H8056 (שָׂמֵחַ); blithesomeness or glee, (religious or festival)
KJV glosses: [idiom] exceeding(-ly), gladness, joy(-fulness), mirth, pleasure, rejoice(-ing).
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How translators render H8057
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| with joy | 13 |
| joy | 12 |
| and gladness | 8 |
| and joy | 7 |
| rejoicing | 3 |
| with gladness | 3 |
| with rejoicing | 3 |
| gladness | 2 |
| is joy | 2 |
| of joy | 2 |
| pleasure | 2 |
| there was joy | 2 |
| and of pleasure | 1 |
| and on your joyous | 1 |
| and the joy | 1 |
| as they rejoice | 1 |
| as you rejoiced | 1 |
| delight | 1 |
| giving joyfully | 1 |
| have joy | 1 |
| in its joy | 1 |
| in the gladness | 1 |
| is a joy | 1 |
| its joy | 1 |
| joyfully | 1 |
| my greatest joy | 1 |
| of pleasure | 1 |
| rejoiced | 1 |
| so that the joy | 1 |
| songs of joy | 1 |
| takes joy | 1 |
| the enjoyment of life | 1 |
| the joyous | 1 |
| their joy | 1 |
| they rejoiced | 1 |
| to joy | 1 |
| to rejoice | 1 |
| was greatly | 1 |
| will rejoice | 1 |
| with joyful songs | 1 |
| with more joy | 1 |
| with the joy | 1 |
| you with pleasure | 1 |
| your joy | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| joy | 15 |
| and gladness | 10 |
| with joy | 8 |
| with gladness | 7 |
| gladness | 6 |
| and joy | 4 |
| of gladness | 4 |
| mirth | 3 |
| of joy | 2 |
| all joy | 1 |
| and of mirth | 1 |
| and rejoicing | 1 |
| and the joy | 1 |
| and to rejoice | 1 |
| as thou didst rejoice | 1 |
| for joy | 1 |
| from any joy | 1 |
| had joy | 1 |
| hath joy | 1 |
| him exceeding glad | 1 |
| in the gladness | 1 |
| in the joy | 1 |
| me with gladness | 1 |
| my exceeding | 1 |
| of mirth | 1 |
| of that mirth | 1 |
| of the gladness | 1 |
| of your gladness | 1 |
| over thee with joy | 1 |
| pleasure | 1 |
| rejoiced | 1 |
| so that the joy | 1 |
| the joy | 1 |
| thee according to the joy | 1 |
| thee with mirth | 1 |
| to joy | 1 |
| to your joy | 1 |
| was exceeding | 1 |
| with his joy | 1 |
| with joyfulness | 1 |
| with mirth | 1 |
| with rejoicing | 1 |
| with the joy | 1 |
| yea let them exceedingly | 1 |
Verses containing H8057
Page 1 of 2. 89 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 31:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Numbers 10:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 28:47
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,
Read word by word - Judges 16:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 18:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 6:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 1:40
· BSB · 1 occurrence
All the people followed him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth was split by the sound.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 12:40
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 12.41
- 1 Chronicles 15:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 15:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 29:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 29:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 29:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 20:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 23:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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 written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and song, as ordained by David.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 29:30
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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 down and worshiped.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 30:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 30:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The whole assembly agreed to observe seven more days, so they observed seven days with joy.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 30:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezra 3:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezra 3:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezra 6:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 8:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 8:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The whole assembly that 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.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 12:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 12:43
· BSB · 2 occurrences
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.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 12:44
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Esther 8:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For the Jews it was a time of light and gladness, of joy and honor.
Read word by word - Esther 8:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Esther 9:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Esther 9:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Esther 9:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Esther 9:22
· BSB · 2 occurrences
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.
Read word by word - Job 20:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
Read word by word - Psalms 4:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You have filled my heart with more joy than when grain and new wine abound.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 4.8
- Psalms 16:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Psalms 21:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For You grant him blessings forever; You cheer him with joy in Your presence.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.7
- Psalms 30:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 30.12
- Psalms 43:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Psalms 45:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They are led in with joy and gladness; they enter the palace of the king.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 45.16
- Psalms 51:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 51.10
- Psalms 68:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But the righteous will be glad and rejoice before God; they will celebrate with joy.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 68.4
- Psalms 97:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Light shines on the righteous, gladness on the upright in heart.
Read word by word - Psalms 100:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Serve the LORD with gladness; come into His presence with joyful songs.
Read word by word - Psalms 106:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, and give glory with Your inheritance.
Read word by word - Psalms 137:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”
Read word by word - Psalms 137:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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!
Read word by word - Proverbs 10:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The hope of the righteous is joy, but the expectations of the wicked will perish.
Read word by word - Proverbs 12:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Deceit is in the hearts of those who devise evil, but the counselors of peace have joy.
Read word by word - Proverbs 14:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares in its joy.
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