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# מָשׂוֹשׂ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4885

**exultation** — used 16 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

exultation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4885/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָשׂוֹשׂ²: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4885/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 24:8 id.;—abs. מ׳ Is 32:13 +, cstr. מְשׂוֹשׂ Jb 8:19 +; sf. מְשׂוֹשִׂי Je 49:25, מְשׂוֹשָׂהּ Ho 2:13;—exultation, in gen., La 5:15 (opp. אֵבֶל), Is 24:11; 66:10 (acc. cogn.); of bridegroom 62:5; מ׳ תֻּפִּים 24:8, מ׳ כִּנּוֹר v 8; בָּתֵּי מ׳ 32:13; of Jerus. (as causing joy) 60:15 ψ 48:3; La 2:15, cf. Je 49:25 (קִרְיַת מְשׂוֹשִׂי; ‖ תְּהִלָּה), Is 65:18 (‖ גִּילָה); מ׳ דַּרְכּוֹ (of godless man) Jb 8:19; מ׳ פְּרָאִים Is 32:14, i.e. desert.—מ׳ Is 8:6, si vera l., is cstr. before prep., but (מִפְּנֵי) מָסוֹס, Hi Gie Che Du Kit Marti al.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: joy (4); the joy (4); a joy (3).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 49:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.49.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.49.25/#tree)

אֵ֥יךְ לֹֽא־עֻזְּבָ֖ה עִ֣יר תְּהִלָּ֑ת קִרְיַ֖ת מְשׂוֹשִֽׂי׃

*Word for word:* how! not it.has.been.forsaken a.city of.praise the.town my.joy my

*JPS 1917:* 'How is the city of praise left unrepaired, the city of my joy?'

[Isaiah 24:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.24.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.24.8/#tree)

שָׁבַת֙ מְשׂ֣וֹשׂ תֻּפִּ֔ים חָדַ֖ל שְׁא֣וֹן עַלִּיזִ֑ים שָׁבַ֖ת מְשׂ֥וֹשׂ כִּנּֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* it.has.ceased \[the\].joy of.tambourines it.has.stopped \[the\].uproar of.exultant.\[people\] it.has.ceased \[the\].joy of.\[the\].harp

*JPS 1917:* The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4885/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).