Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H8055: שָׂמַח (sâmach) Definition

Strong's number
H8055
Lemma
שָׂמַח
Transliteration
sâmach
Pronunciation
saw-makh'
Strong's definition
probably to brighten up, i.e. (figuratively) be (causatively, make) blithe or gleesome cheer up, be (make) glad, (have, make) joy(-ful), be (make) merry, (cause to, make to) rejoice, [idiom] very. a primitive root;

143 instances of the word שָׂמַח sâmach (H8055)


  • Joel 2:21 - Fear not O land be glad and rejoice great things for the LORD will do

  • Joel 2:23 - then ye children of Zion Be glad and rejoice in the LORD your God for he hath given the former rain moderately and he will cause to come down for you the rain the former rain and the latter rain in the first

  • Jonah 4:6 - prepared And the LORD God a gourd and made it to come up So Jonah that it might be a shadow over his head to deliver him from his grief glad So Jonah a gourd was exceeding

  • Judges 9:13 - said And the vine unto them Should I leave my wine which cheereth God and go to be promoted over the trees

  • Judges 9:19 - truly and sincerely If ye then have dealt with Jerubbaal and with his house this day and let him also rejoice ye in Abimelech and let him also rejoice

  • Judges 19:3 - arose And her husband after her to speak friendly unto her and to bring her again having his servant with him and a couple of asses and she brought house and when the father saw and when the father of the damsel him he rejoiced to meet

  • Lamentations 2:17 - hath done The LORD that which he had devised he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old he hath thrown down and hath not pitied to rejoice and he hath caused thine enemy over thee he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries

  • Lamentations 4:21 - Rejoice and be glad O daughter of Edom that dwellest in the land of Uz also shall pass the cup through unto thee thou shalt be drunken and shalt make thyself naked

  • Leviticus 23:40 - And ye shall take day you on the first the boughs trees of goodly branches of palm trees and the boughs trees of thick and willows of the brook and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven day

  • Nehemiah 12:43 - they offered Also that day sacrifices great and rejoiced for God and rejoiced joy great the wives also and the children and rejoiced was heard joy of Jerusalem even afar off

  • Obadiah 1:12 - But thou shouldest not have looked in the day of thy brother in the day neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction proudly neither shouldest thou have spoken in the day of distress

  • Proverbs 5:18 - Let thy fountain be blessed and rejoice with the wife of thy youth

  • Proverbs 10:1 - The proverbs of Solomon son A wise maketh a glad father son but a foolish is the heaviness of his mother

  • Proverbs 12:25 - Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop word but a good maketh it glad

  • Proverbs 13:9 - The light of the righteous rejoiceth but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out

  • Proverbs 15:20 - son A wise maketh a glad father but a foolish man despiseth his mother

  • Proverbs 15:30 - The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart report and a good fat the bones

  • Proverbs 17:21 - He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow hath no joy and the father of a fool

  • Proverbs 23:15 - My son be wise if thine heart shall rejoice if thine heart even mine

  • Proverbs 23:24 - rejoice shall greatly The father of the righteous and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy child shall have joy