Glad
שָׂמֵחַStrong’s H8056sameach (sa-me-ach)
Appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sameach is the Hebrew word usually translated “joyful” and “joyful of”. It appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Joyful, merry, gladjoyful, showing joy · you who rejoice (subst)
How it's translated
- joyful 14
- the joyful 3
- and joyful 2
- joyful of 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 4
- Proverbs 4
- Psalms 3
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Esther 2
- Deuteronomy 1
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 1:40And 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.
- 1 Kings 1:45And 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.
- 1 Kings 4:20Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
- 1 Kings 8:66On 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.
- 2 Kings 11:14And 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.
- 2 Chronicles 7:10And 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.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׂמֵחַ sameach · glad
1) joyful, merry, glad 1a) joyful, showing joy 1b) you who rejoice (subst)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “glad” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GLAD, adjective
[Latin loetus, without a prefix.]
- Pleased; affected with pleasure or moderate joy; moderately happy.“A wise son maketh a glad father” Proverbs 10:1“He that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished” Proverbs 17:5
- Cheerful; joyous.“They blessed the king, and went to their tents, joyful and glad of heart” 1 Kings 8:66
- Cheerful; wearing the appearance of joy; as a glad countenance.
- Wearing a gay appearance; showy; bright.“The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them” Isaiah 35:1
All definitions and other forms of “glad”
- Pleasing; exhilarating.
- Expressing gladness or joy; exciting joy.
GLAD, verb transitive
[The preterit tense and participle passive gladed is not used. See Gladden.]
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.