Rejoicing
גִּילStrong’s H1524gil
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gil is the Hebrew word usually translated “rejoicing”, “rejoicing my” and “about age your”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king.”
Meaning
- A rejoicing
- A circle, young age
How it's translated
- and rejoicing 5
- rejoicing 2
- rejoicing my 1
- about age your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 3
- Job 1
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Daniel 1
- Hosea 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 3:22Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
- Psalms 43:4Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
- Psalms 45:15With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace.
- Psalms 65:12They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.
- Isaiah 16:10And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
- Jeremiah 48:33And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
Hebrew dictionary
גִּיל gil · rejoicing
a rejoicing
גִּיל gil · youth
a circle, young age
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “rejoicing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REJOIC'ING, participle present
tense Animating with gladness; exhilarating; feeling joy.
All definitions and other forms of “rejoicing”
REJOIC'ING, participle present
tense Animating with gladness; exhilarating; feeling joy.
REJOIC'ING, noun
- The act of expressing joy and gladness.“The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous” Psalms 118:15
- The subject of joy.“Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage forever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart” Psalms 119:111
- The experience of joy. Galatians 6:4
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.