Strong's #8057: simchah (pronounced sim-khaw')

from 8056; blithesomeness or glee, (religious or festival):--X exceeding(-ly), gladness, joy(-fulness), mirth, pleasure, rejoice(-ing).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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śimchâh

1) joy, mirth, gladness

1a) mirth, gladness, joy, gaiety, pleasure

1b) joy (of God)

1c) glad result, happy issue

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H8056

Usage:

This word is used 93 times:

Genesis 31:27: "from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?"
Numbers 10:10: "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over"
Deuteronomy 28:47: "not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance"
Judges 16:23: "sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered"
1 Samuel 18:6: "and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of music."
2 Samuel 6:12: "from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with gladness."
1 Kings 1:40: "with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound"
1 Chronicles 12:40: "and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel."
1 Chronicles 15:16: "sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy."
1 Chronicles 15:25: "out of the house of Obed-edom with joy."
1 Chronicles 29:9: "also rejoiced with great joy."
1 Chronicles 29:17: "these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly"
1 Chronicles 29:22: "on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David"
2 Chronicles 20:27: "of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies."
2 Chronicles 23:18: "as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David."
2 Chronicles 29:30: "the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped."
2 Chronicles 30:21: "seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD"
2 Chronicles 30:23: "and they kept other seven days with gladness."
2 Chronicles 30:26: "So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon"
Ezra 3:12: "before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud"
Ezra 3:13: "discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for"
Ezra 6:22: "of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned"
Nehemiah 8:12: "portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that"
Nehemiah 8:17: "so. And there was very great gladness."
Nehemiah 12:27: "to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals,"
Nehemiah 12:43: "God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced:"
Nehemiah 12:43: "also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off."
Nehemiah 12:44: "and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites"
Esther 8:16: "The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honor."
Esther 8:17: "whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness,"
Esther 9:17: "and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness."
Esther 9:18: "thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness."
Esther 9:19: "the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good"
Esther 9:22: "and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning"
Esther 9:22: "and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending"
Job 20:5: "the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?"
Psalms 4:7: "Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased."
Psalms 16:11: "in thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore."
Psalms 21:6: "thou hast made him most blessed forever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance."
Psalms 30:11: "thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;"
Psalms 43:4: "of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God"
Psalms 45:15: " With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace."
Psalms 51:8: "Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice."
Psalms 68:3: "let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice."
Psalms 97:11: "Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart."
Psalms 100:2: "Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing."
Psalms 106:5: "the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance."
Psalms 137:3: "required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs"
Psalms 137:6: "Jerusalem above my chief joy."
Proverbs 10:28: "The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish."
Proverbs 12:20: "evil: but to the counselors of peace is joy."
Proverbs 14:10: "and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy."
Proverbs 14:13: "the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness."
Proverbs 15:21: "Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly."
Proverbs 15:23: "A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good"
Proverbs 21:15: " It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity."
Proverbs 21:17: "He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not"
Ecclesiastes 2:1: "Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this"
Ecclesiastes 2:2: "I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?"
Ecclesiastes 2:10: "not my heart from any joy; for my heart"
Ecclesiastes 2:26: "that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail,"
Ecclesiastes 5:20: "because God answereth him in the joy of his heart."
Ecclesiastes 7:4: "but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth."
Ecclesiastes 8:15: "Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better"
Ecclesiastes 9:7: "Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart;"
Song of Solomon 3:11: "crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart."
Isaiah 9:3: "the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest,"
Isaiah 9:3: "the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide"
Isaiah 16:10: " And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing,"
Isaiah 22:13: "And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating"
Isaiah 24:11: "wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone."
Isaiah 29:19: "The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One"
Isaiah 30:29: "a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe"
Isaiah 35:10: "their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away."
Isaiah 51:3: "like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody."
Isaiah 51:11: "with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness"
Isaiah 51:11: "their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away."
Isaiah 55:12: "For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth"
Isaiah 61:7: "they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be"
Isaiah 66:5: "said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed."
Jeremiah 7:34: "and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom,"
Jeremiah 15:16: "them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by"
Jeremiah 16:9: "the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride."
Jeremiah 25:10: "them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride,"
Jeremiah 31:7: "saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations:"
Jeremiah 33:11: "The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride,"
Jeremiah 48:33: " And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab;"
Ezekiel 35:15: " As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so"
Ezekiel 36:5: "have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful"
Joel 1:16: "cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?"
Jonah 4:6: "to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of"
Zephaniah 3:17: "he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over"
Zechariah 8:19: "to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth"