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Cheer

מַבְלִיגִיתStrong’s H4010

mavligit (mav-li-git)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Mavligit is the Hebrew word usually translated “cheerfulness my”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.”
Jeremiah 8:18 KJV
Meaning
  1. Smiling, cheerfulness, source of cheerfulness or brightening
How it's translated
  • cheerfulness my 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Jeremiah 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    מַבְלִיגִית mavligit · cheer

    smiling, cheerfulness, source of cheerfulness or brightening

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “cheer” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    CHEER, verb transitive

    1. To salute with shouts of joy, or cheers.
    2. To dispel gloom, sorrow, silence or apathy; to cause to rejoice; to gladden; to make cheerful; as, to cheer a lonely desert; the cheering rays of the sun; good news cheers the heart.
    3. To infuse life; spirit, animation; to incite; to encourage; as, to cheer the hounds.
    All definitions and other forms of “cheer”

      CHEER, verb intransitive

      To grow cheerful; to become gladsome, or joyous.

        CHEER, noun

        1. A shout of joy; as, they gave three cheers.
        2. A state of gladness or joy; a state of animation, above gloom and depression of spirits, but below mirth, gayety and jollity.“Son, be of good cheer thy sins are forgiven thee” Matthew 9:2“Then were they all of good cheer and they also took some meat” Acts 27:36
        3. Mirth; gayety; jollity; as at a feast.
        4. Invitation to gayety.
        5. Entertainment; that which makes cheerful; provisions for a feast.
        6. Air of countenance, noting a greater or less degree of cheerfulness.

        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.