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# עָלַס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5965

**rejoice** — used 3 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

rejoice [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5965/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָלַס: vb. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5965/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. rejoice (‖ with עָלַז, עָלַץ, q.v.; NH עֲלִיסָה rejoicing (once LevyNHWB iii. 657));— Impf. 3 ms. יַעֲלֹס Jb 20:18 he shall not rejoice. Pf. 3 fs. נֶעֱלָסָה Jb 39:13 (of ostrich’s wing) = flap joyously. Impf. 1 pl. cohort. נִתְעַלְּסָה Pr 7:18 let us delight ourselves in (ב) love.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he will rejoice (1); it flaps joyously (1); let us delight ourselves (1).

## In the verses

[Job 39:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.13/#tree)

כְּנַף־רְנָנִ֥ים נֶעֱלָ֑סָה אִם־אֶ֝בְרָ֗ה חֲסִידָ֥ה וְנֹצָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].wing of.ostriches it.flaps.joyously if a.pinion a.stork and plumage

*JPS 1917:* The wing of the ostrich beateth joyously; but are her pinions and feathers the kindly stork's?

[Proverbs 7:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.18/#tree)

לְכָ֤ה נִרְוֶ֣ה דֹ֭דִים עַד־הַבֹּ֑קֶר נִ֝תְעַלְּסָ֗ה בָּאֳהָבִֽים׃

*Word for word:* come let.us.take.our.fill.of love(s) until the morning let.us.delight.ourselves with love(s)

*JPS 1917:* Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us solace ourselves with loves.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5965.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5965/): 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).