Words the Bible translates as gladness
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 6 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- charaχαράjoy: the glad lift of the heart at something genuinely good
- simḥahשִׂמְחָהjoy: gladness felt in the heart and shown openly in celebration, often before God
- agalliasisἀγαλλίασιςexultation: exuberant, celebratory joy, the kind that is sung, shouted, or leapt rather than quietly felt
- sasvonשָׂשׂוֹןexultant joy: glad rejoicing, both the lift of gladness in the heart and the celebration it breaks out into
- masvosמָשׂוֹשׂjoy: glad rejoicing, and by extension the person or place that is someone's delight
- gilגִּילthe loud joy of a celebration: rejoicing that breaks out where others can see and hear it, as at a harvest, a festival, or a procession
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- a person's age: the stage of life someone has reached, and so the others who are at that same stage
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