שִׂמְחָה
simchâh · sim-khaw'
blithesomeness or glee, (religious or festival)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H8056 (שָׂמֵחַ);
blithesomeness or glee, (religious or festival)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [idiom] exceeding(-ly), gladness, joy(-fulness), mirth, pleasure, rejoice(-ing).
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › water, chaos, the mighty deep › to separate and protect › to reveal, behold
To consume, to destroy of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to separate and protect that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שִׂמְחָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
94 occurrences · 94 OT · 0 NT · 51 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and gladness10 · 15%
- joy9 · 13%
- with joy8 · 12%
- with gladness7 · 10%
- of gladness4 · 6%
- and joy4 · 6%
- gladness4 · 6%
- is joy2 · 3%
- of joy2 · 3%
- mirth2 · 3%
- and to rejoice1 · 1%
- him exceeding glad1 · 1%
- with joyfulness1 · 1%
- for there was joy1 · 1%
- of your gladness1 · 1%
- to joy1 · 1%
- a day of gladness1 · 1%
- had joy1 · 1%
- rejoiced1 · 1%
- so that the joy1 · 1%
- for joy1 · 1%
- and the joy1 · 1%
- with rejoicing1 · 1%
- me with gladness1 · 1%
- with mirth1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.