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# שַׁעֲשׁוּעִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8191

**delight** — used 9 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

delight [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8191/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׁעֲשֻׁעִים: pl. intens. delight [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8191/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** -שׁוּעִים n.\[m.\]pl. intens. delight (BaNB 206);—abs. -שׁוּעִים Je 31:20 Pr 8:30; sf. -שׁוּעָיו Is 5:7, usually -שֻׁעַי Pr 8:31 ψ 119:24, -שֻׁעָ֑י v 77 + 3 times;—delight, in phr. נְטַע שׁ׳ Is 5:7 the planting of his delight (in which he took delight), so יֶלֶד שׁ׳ Je 31:20 (‖ בֵּן יַקִּיר); שׁ׳ אֶת־ Pr 8:31 my delight (was) with the sons of men; elsewhere = object of delight, of wisdom v 30; God’s law, etc., ψ 119:24, 77, 92, 143, 174.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, 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: delight(s) (6); been\] my delight(s) (1); his delight(s) (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 119:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.24/#tree)

גַּֽם־עֵ֭דֹתֶיךָ שַׁעֲשֻׁעָ֗י אַנְשֵׁ֥י עֲצָתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* also testimonies your delight(s) \[are\].my the.people my.counsel my

*JPS 1917:* Yea, Thy testimonies are my delight, they are my counsellors.

[Psalms 119:143](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.143/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.143/#tree)

צַר־וּמָצ֥וֹק מְצָא֑וּנִי מִ֝צְוֺתֶ֗יךָ שַׁעֲשֻׁעָֽי׃

*Word for word:* anxiety and distress they have.found.me commandments your delight(s) \[are\].my

*JPS 1917:* Trouble and anguish have overtaken me; yet Thy commandments are my delight.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8191.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8191/): 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).