Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
glad
Usage: 1) joyful, merry, glad 1a) joyful, showing joy 1b) you who rejoice (subst)
Sameach means “joyful” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H8056 שָׂמֵַח (sameach) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. sameach (saw-may'-akh) adj. 1. blithe or gleeful [from H8055] It has 26 linked Bible usages across 14 books. Visible English usage signals include glad, rejoice, making, joyful, and maketh. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
sameach (saw-may'-akh) adj. 1. blithe or gleeful [from H8055] KJV: (be) glad, joyful, (making) merry((-hearted), -ily), rejoice(-ing). Root(s): H8055
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H8056. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
glad
Usage: 1) joyful, merry, glad 1a) joyful, showing joy 1b) you who rejoice (subst)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render sameach, 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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26 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.
Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.
First 26 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8056.
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.
Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.
And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.
And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that ye have heard.
Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.
And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.
Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai.
Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
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.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H8056, grouped by book.
Sameach (Strong's H8056) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "joyful". sameach (saw-may'-akh) adj. 1. blithe or gleeful [from H8055]
This page currently indexes 26 linked usages for Strong's H8056 across 14 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8056 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as glad, rejoice, making, joyful, maketh, and merry. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.