Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to rejoice
Usage: 1) to rejoice, exult, be glad 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to rejoice 1a2) to tremble (from fear)
Gil means “rejoice” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1523 — eisdechomai (“receive”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1523 גִּיל גּוּל (giyl) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. giyl (gheel) (or (by permutation) guwl {gool}) v. 1. (properly) to spin round (under the influence of any violent emotion), i.e. usually rejoice, or (as cringing) fear [a primitive root] It has 44 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include rejoice. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
giyl (gheel) (or (by permutation) guwl {gool}) v. 1. (properly) to spin round (under the influence of any violent emotion), i.e. usually rejoice, or (as cringing) fear [a primitive root] KJV: be glad, joy, be joyful, rejoice.
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to rejoice
Usage: 1) to rejoice, exult, be glad 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to rejoice 1a2) to tremble (from fear)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render giyl, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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44 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The LORD reigneth.
Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
First 44 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1523.
Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The LORD reigneth.
Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.
Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.
The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.
Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.
This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.
Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:
The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.
Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you 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 month.
They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.
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Gil (Strong's H1523) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "rejoice". giyl (gheel) (or (by permutation) guwl {gool}) v. 1. (properly) to spin round (under the influence of any violent emotion), i.e. usually rejoice, or (as cringing) fear [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 44 linked usages for Strong's H1523 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1523 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as rejoice. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.