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# שָׂמֵחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8056

**glad** — used 21 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

glad [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8056/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׂמֵחַ: adj.verb. glad, joyful, merry [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8056/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.verb. glad, joyful, merry;—abs. שׂ׳ Dt 16:15 +, f. שְׂמֵחָה ψ 119:9; pl. שְׂמֵחִים 1 K 1:45 +, cstr. שִׂמְחֵי Is 24:17, שְׂמֵחֵי ψ 35:26;— as adj. joyful, shewing joy, 1 K 1:45; Est 5:9 (+ טוֹב לֵב), v 14; אֵם שְׂמֵחָה ψ 113:9; לֵב שׂ׳ Pr 15:13; 17:22; at feast of tab. Dt 16:15, in thankfulness to י׳ ψ 126:3 (both pred. c. הָיָה), 1 K 8:66 (+ טוֹבֵי לֵב) = 2 Ch 7:10. = pt. 1 K 1:40 (‖ מְחַלְּלִים piping), 4:20; 2 K 11:14 (+ תֹּקֵעַ ב) = 2 Ch 23:13, מִן rei Ec 2:10. as subst. הַשׂ׳ Am 6:13 (+ ל rei), Pr 2:14 (ל inf.), Jb 3:22 (+ אֱלֵי־גִיל; ‖ יָשִׂישׂוּ); שִׂמְחֵי־לֵב Is 24:7; of malicious joy שׂ׳ Pr 17:5 (ל rei), שְׂמֵחֵי רָעָתִי ψ 35:26.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 21 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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: joyful (12); \[was\] joyful (3); \[people\] (2).

## In the verses

[Job 3:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.22/#tree)

הַשְּׂמֵחִ֥ים אֱלֵי־גִ֑יל יָ֝שִׂ֗ישׂוּ כִּ֣י יִמְצְאוּ־קָֽבֶר׃

*Word for word:* the.joyful \[people\] to rejoicing \[who\].they.exult (dm) they.find \[the\].grave

*JPS 1917:* Who rejoice unto exultation, and are glad, when they can find the grave? —

[Psalms 126:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.126.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.126.3/#tree)

הִגְדִּ֣יל יְ֭הוָה לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת עִמָּ֗נוּ הָיִ֥ינוּ שְׂמֵחִֽים׃

*Word for word:* he.has.made.great Yahweh to do with us we.were joyful

*JPS 1917:* The LORD hath done great things with us; we are rejoiced.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8056.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8056/): 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).