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H8057שִׂמְחָהsim.chah

joyPart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Feminine)

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Occurrences by book

  1. 1
  2. Exodus: 0
  3. Leviticus: 0
  4. 1
  5. 1
  6. Joshua: 0
  7. 1
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 1
  10. 1
  11. 1
  12. 2 Kings: 0
  13. 6
  14. 6
  15. 3
  16. 6
  17. 7
  18. 1
  19. 13
  20. 8
  21. 8
  22. 1
  23. 15
  24. 7
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. 2
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. Hosea: 0
  29. 1
  30. Amos: 0
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. 1
  33. Micah: 0
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. 1
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. 1
  39. Malachi: 0

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94 occurrences in 89 verses

With their references and text in Bible in Basic English.

  1. Proverbs 14:13

    Even while laughing the heart may be sad; and after joy comes sorrow.

    שִׂמְחָ֣ה sim.Chah “joy”

  2. Proverbs 15:21

    Foolish behaviour is joy to the unwise; but a man of good sense makes his way straight.

    שִׂמְחָ֣ה sim.Chah “[is] a joy”

  3. Proverbs 15:23

    A man has joy in the answer of his mouth: and a word at the right time, how good it is!

    שִׂמְחָ֣ה sim.Chah “joy”

  4. Proverbs 21:15

    It is a joy to the good man to do right, but it is destruction to the workers of evil.

    שִׂמְחָ֣ה sim.Chah “[is] a joy”

  5. Proverbs 21:17

    The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.

    שִׂמְחָ֑ה sim.Chah “pleasure”

  6. Ecclesiastes 2:1

    I said in my heart, I will give you joy for a test; so take your pleasure--but it was to no purpose.

    בְשִׂמְחָ֖ה (שִׂמְחָ֖ה) sim.Chah “pleasure”

  7. Ecclesiastes 2:2

    Of laughing I said, It is foolish; and of joy--What use is it?

    וּלְשִׂמְחָ֖ה (שִׂמְחָ֖ה) sim.Chah “pleasure”

  8. Ecclesiastes 2:10

    And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.

    שִׂמְחָ֗ה sim.Chah “pleasure”

  9. Ecclesiastes 2:26

    To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

    וְשִׂמְחָ֑ה (שִׂמְחָ֑ה) sim.Chah “joy”

  10. Ecclesiastes 5:19

    He will not give much thought to the days of his life; because God lets him be taken up with the joy of his heart.

    בְּשִׂמְחַ֥ת (שִׂמְחַ֥ת) sim.Chat “[the] joy of”

  11. Ecclesiastes 7:4

    The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.

    שִׂמְחָֽה׃ sim.Chah “gladness”

  12. Ecclesiastes 8:15

    So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

    הַשִּׂמְחָ֔ה (שִּׂמְחָ֔ה) sim.Chah “gladness”

  13. Ecclesiastes 9:7

    Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

    בְּשִׂמְחָה֙ (שִׂמְחָה֙) sim.Chah “gladness”

  14. Song of Songs 3:11

    Go out, O daughters of Jerusalem, and see King Solomon, with the crown which his mother put on his head on the day when he was married, and on the day of the joy of his heart.

    שִׂמְחַ֥ת sim.Chat “[the] rejoicing of”

  15. Isaiah 9:3

    You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.

    הַשִּׂמְחָ֑ה (שִּׂמְחָ֑ה) sim.Chah “rejoicing”כְּשִׂמְחַ֣ת (שִׂמְחַ֣ת) sim.Chat “[the] rejoicing”

  16. Isaiah 16:10

    And all joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field; and in the vine-gardens there are no songs or sounds of joy: the crushing of grapes has come to an end, and its glad cry has been stopped.

    שִׂמְחָ֤ה sim.Chah “gladness”

  17. Isaiah 22:13

    But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.

    וְשִׂמְחָ֗ה (שִׂמְחָ֗ה) sim.Chah “gladness”

  18. Isaiah 24:11

    There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone.

    שִׂמְחָ֔ה sim.Chah “gladness”

  19. Isaiah 29:19

    And the poor will have their joy in the Lord increased, and those in need will be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

    שִׂמְחָ֑ה sim.Chah “joy”

  20. Isaiah 30:29

    You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and you will be glad in heart, as when they go with music of the pipe to the mountain of the Lord, the Rock of Israel.

    וְשִׂמְחַ֣ת (שִׂמְחַ֣ת) sim.Chat “gladness of”

  21. Isaiah 35:10

    Even those whom he has made free, will come back again; they will come with songs to Zion; on their heads will be eternal joy; delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.

    וְשִׂמְחַ֥ת (שִׂמְחַ֥ת) sim.Chat “gladness of”וְשִׂמְחָה֙ (שִׂמְחָה֙) sim.Chah “gladness”

  22. Isaiah 51:3

    For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.

    וְשִׂמְחָה֙ (שִׂמְחָה֙) sim.Chah “gladness”

  23. Isaiah 51:11

    Those whom the Lord has made free will come back with songs to Zion; and on their heads will be eternal joy: delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.

    וְשִׂמְחַ֥ת (שִׂמְחַ֥ת) sim.Chat “gladness of”וְשִׂמְחָה֙ (שִׂמְחָה֙) sim.Chah “gladness”

  24. Isaiah 55:12

    For you will go out with joy, and be guided in peace: the mountains and the hills will make melody before you, and all the trees of the fields will make sounds of joy.

    בְשִׂמְחָ֣ה (שִׂמְחָ֣ה) sim.Chah “joy”

  25. Isaiah 61:7

    As they had twice as much grief, and marks of shame were their heritage, so in their land they will be rewarded twice over, and will have eternal joy.

    שִׂמְחַ֥ת sim.Chat “joy of”