H8057–שִׂמְחָה–sim.chah

Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn't tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;

בְּשִׂמְחָ֥ה (שִׂמְחָ֥ה) sim.Chah “gladness”

Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God: I am Yahweh your God.

שִׂמְחַתְכֶ֥ם (שִׂמְחַתְ) sim.chat. “rejoicing”

Because you didn't serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;

בְּשִׂמְחָ֖ה (שִׂמְחָ֖ה) sim.Chah “joy”

The lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.

וּלְשִׂמְחָ֑ה (שִׂמְחָ֑ה) sim.Chah “joy”

It happened as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music.

בְּשִׂמְחָ֖ה (שִׂמְחָ֖ה) sim.Chah “joy”

It was told king David, saying, Yahweh has blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that pertains to him, because of the ark of God. David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with joy.

בְּשִׂמְחָֽה׃ (שִׂמְחָֽה) sim.Chah “rejoicing”

All the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth shook with the sound of them.

שִׂמְחָ֣ה sim.Chah “joy”

Moreover those who were near to them, [ergänzt: even] as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on donkeys, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, food of meal, cakes of figs, and clusters of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep in abundance: for there was joy in Israel.

שִׂמְחָ֖ה sim.Chah “joy”

David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers the singers, with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with joy.

לְשִׂמְחָֽה׃ (שִׂמְחָֽה) sim.Chah “joy”

So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the house of Obed-edom with joy.

בְּשִׂמְחָֽה׃ (שִׂמְחָֽה) sim.Chah “joy”

Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to Yahweh: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

שִׂמְחָ֥ה sim.Chah “joy”

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy your people, that are present here, offer willingly to you.

בְשִׂמְחָ֖ה (שִׂמְחָ֖ה) sim.Chah “joy”

and ate and drink before Yahweh on that day with great gladness. They made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him to Yahweh to be prince, and Zadok to be priest.

בְּשִׂמְחָ֣ה (שִׂמְחָ֣ה) sim.Chah “joy”

Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for Yahweh had made them to rejoice over their enemies.

בְּשִׂמְחָ֑ה (שִׂמְחָ֑ה) sim.Chah “joy”

Jehoiada appointed the officers of the house of Yahweh under the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of Yahweh, to offer the burnt offerings of Yahweh, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David.

בְּשִׂמְחָ֣ה (שִׂמְחָ֣ה) sim.Chah “joy”

Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises to Yahweh with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. They sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped.

לְשִׂמְחָ֔ה (שִׂמְחָ֔ה) sim.Chah “joy”

The children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised Yahweh day by day, [ergänzt: singing] with loud instruments to Yahweh.

בְּשִׂמְחָ֣ה (שִׂמְחָ֣ה) sim.Chah “joy”

The whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days; and they kept [ergänzt: other] seven days with gladness.

שִׂמְחָֽה׃ sim.Chah “joy”

So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.

שִׂמְחָֽה־ sim.chah- “joy”

But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' [ergänzt: houses], the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:

בְשִׂמְחָ֖ה (שִׂמְחָ֖ה) sim.Chah “gladness”

so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.

הַשִּׂמְחָ֔ה (שִּׂמְחָ֔ה) sim.Chah “happiness”

and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

בְּשִׂמְחָ֑ה (שִׂמְחָ֑ה) sim.Chah “joy”

All the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.

שִׂמְחָ֣ה sim.Chah “joy”

All the assembly of those who were come again out of the captivity made booths, and lived in the booths; for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the children of Israel had not done so. There was very great gladness.

שִׂמְחָ֖ה sim.Chah “joy”

At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.

וְשִׂמְחָה֙ (שִׂמְחָה֙) sim.Chah “joy”