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 2 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.
- Proverbs 14:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow.
Read word by word - Proverbs 15:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Folly is joy to one who lacks judgment, but a man of understanding walks a straight path.
Read word by word - Proverbs 15:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
A man takes joy in a fitting reply—and how good is a timely word!
Read word by word - Proverbs 21:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity.
Read word by word - Proverbs 21:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never be rich.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 2:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good!” But it proved to be futile.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 2:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 2:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 2:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 5:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For a man seldom considers the days of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.19
- Ecclesiastes 7:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 8:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 9:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:
Read word by word - Song of Solomon 3:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Come out, O daughters of Zion, and gaze at King Solomon, wearing the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding—the day of his heart’s rejoicing.
Read word by word - Isaiah 9:3
· BSB · 2 occurrences
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.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.2
- Isaiah 16:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Isaiah 22:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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!”
Read word by word - Isaiah 24:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.
Read word by word - Isaiah 29:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The humble will increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
Read word by word - Isaiah 30:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Isaiah 35:10
· BSB · 2 occurrences
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.
Read word by word - Isaiah 51:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Isaiah 51:11
· BSB · 2 occurrences
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.
Read word by word - Isaiah 55:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Isaiah 61:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Isaiah 66:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 7:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 15:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 16:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 25:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 31:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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!’
Read word by word - Jeremiah 33:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 48:33
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 35:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 36:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Joel 1:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes—joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Read word by word - Jonah 4:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Zephaniah 3:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
Read word by word - Zechariah 8:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“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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