Study it in the app“You have multiplied the nation, you have increased the joy for it; they rejoice before you as with the joy at harvest, as people exult when they divide spoil.”
You have multipliedהִרְבִּיתָthe nation,הַגּוֹיyou have increasedהִגְדַּלְתָּthe joyהַשִּׂמְחָהfor it;לוֹthey rejoiceשָׂמְחוּbefore youלְפָנֶיךָas with the joyכְּשִׂמְחַתat harvest,בַּקָּצִירasכַּאֲשֶׁרpeople exultיָגִילוּwhen they divideבְּחַלְּקָםspoil.שָׁלָל
multiply
To grow in number.
Where else “hirbita” appearsnation
A people with their land; also Israel.
Where else “goy” appearsgrow up
To get bigger, become an adult; to bring up a child.
Where else “higdalta” appearsjoy
Joy, gladness, celebration.
Where else “simcha” appearsrejoice
To feel glad and show it, above all at the feast before YHWH.
Where else “samchu” appearsbefore
Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.
Where else “fane” appearsharvest
To cut and gather ripe grain and fruit; the season for it and what is gathered.
Where else “katsir” appearsrejoice
To rejoice: to be very glad, to leap for joy.
Where else “yagilu” appearsdivide
To give each one their part.
Where else “chalka” appearsspoil, plunder
Spoil: what is taken from a defeated enemy.
Where else “shalal” appearsThis is the traditional reading (“for it”); what is written says “not”: “you have not increased the joy.”
2The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of the shadow of death, light has shone on them.
3 · This verse (above)
4For the yoke of its burden and the staff of its shoulder, the rod of its oppressor, you have shattered as on the day of Midian.
