Delight
שַׁעֲשֻׁעִיםStrong’s H8191shashua (sha-shu-a)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shashua is the Hebrew word usually translated “delight my”, “delight” and “delight his”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.”
Meaning
- Delight, enjoymentdelight · object of delight
How it's translated
- delight my 5
- delight 2
- and delight my 1
- delight his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 5
- Proverbs 2
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 119:77Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.
- Psalms 119:92Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
- Psalms 119:143Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
- Psalms 119:174I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.
- Proverbs 8:30Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
- Proverbs 8:31Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
Hebrew dictionary
שַׁעֲשֻׁעִים shashua · delight
1) delight, enjoyment 1a) delight 1b) object of delight
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “delight” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DELIGHT, noun
- A high degree of pleasure, or satisfaction of mind; joy.“His delight is in the law of the Lord” Psalms 1:2
- That which gives great pleasure; that which affords delight“I was daily his delight” Proverbs 8:30
All definitions and other forms of “delight”
DELIGHT, verb transitive
- To affect with great pleasure; to please highly; to give or afford high satisfaction or joy; as, a beautiful landscape delights the eye; harmony delights the ear; the good conduct of children, and especially their piety, delights their parents.“I will delight myself in thy statutes. 19” Psalms 119:16
- To receive great pleasure in.“I delight to do thy will” Psalms 40:8
DELIGHT, verb intransitive
To have or take great pleasure; to be greatly pleased or rejoiced; followed by in.
- “I delight in the law of God after the inward man” Romans 7:22
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.