gil · rejoice

What it means

gil (גִּיל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “rejoice”.

To rejoice: to be very glad, to leap for joy.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To be overjoyed, leap with delight.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To be jubilant: to rejoice strongly, with a joy that moves and shows. It almost always goes together with שָׂמַח, ‘be glad’. From the same root is גִּיל, ‘jubilation’.

• “This {is} the day YHWH has made; let us exult” Psalms 118:24Psalms 32:11
• “My heart will be jubilant in your salvation” Psalms 13:5Psalms 16:9Psalms 2:11
• The father’s joy over the wise son Proverbs 23:24Proverbs 24:17
• “I will rejoice in the Elohim of my salvation” Habakkuk 3:18Isaiah 61:10
• The earth and the wilderness rejoice Isaiah 35:11 Chronicles 16:31Joel 2:21

How we translate it

Three verbs of joy are told apart: שׂמח, ‘be glad’; גיל, here “be jubilant”, “exult” or “rejoice”; שׂושׂ, ‘rejoice’ or ‘exult’. In the Psalms the text says “be jubilant” (“will be jubilant” 7 times, “be jubilant” 4: “Be glad in YHWH and be jubilant”, Psalm 32:11); elsewhere “exult” (10) or “rejoice” (17), as in Isaiah, Habakkuk, 1 Chronicles 16:31 and Joel 2:21.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• rejoice ×17
• exult ×10
• will be jubilant ×7
• be jubilant ×4
• rejoiced ×2
• be glad ×1
• exults ×1
• he is jubilant ×1
• was jubilant ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×19
• Proverbs×4
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×11
• Hosea×1
• Joel×2
• Habakkuk×2
• Zephaniah×1
• Zechariah×2

• 1 Chronicles 16:31

  Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let them say among the nations, ‘YHWH reigns!’

• Psalms 2:11

  Serve YHWH with fear, and be jubilant with trembling.

• Psalms 9:14

  so that I may recount all your praises in the gates of the daughter of Zion; I will be jubilant in your salvation.

• Psalms 13:4

  lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed over him”; my adversaries will be jubilant when I am moved.

• Psalms 13:5

  But I in your loyal love have trusted; my heart will be jubilant in your salvation.

• Psalms 14:7

  Oh that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion. When YHWH brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob will be jubilant, Israel will be glad.

• Psalms 16:9

  Therefore my heart was glad and my glory was jubilant; also my flesh will dwell secure.

• Psalms 21:1

  For the director. A psalm of David. YHWH, in your strength the king is glad, and in your salvation how greatly he is jubilant.

• Psalms 31:7

  I will be jubilant and be glad in your loyal love, because you have seen my affliction; you have known the distresses of my soul,

• Psalms 32:11

  Be glad in YHWH and be jubilant, righteous ones, and shout for joy, all the upright in heart.

• Psalms 35:9

  And my soul will be jubilant in YHWH; it will rejoice in his salvation.

• Psalms 48:11

  Let Mount Zion be glad; let the daughters of Judah be jubilant because of your judgments.

• Psalms 51:8

  Make me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you crushed be jubilant.

• Psalms 53:6

  Oh that from Zion would come the salvations of Israel! When Elohim brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob will be jubilant, Israel will be glad.

• Psalms 89:16

  In your name they rejoice all the day, and in your righteousness they are exalted.

• Psalms 96:11

  Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea thunder, and what fills it;

• Psalms 97:1

  YHWH reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad.

• Psalms 97:8

  Zion heard and was glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoiced, because of your judgments, YHWH.

• Psalms 118:24

  This is the day YHWH has made; let us exult and rejoice in it.

• Psalms 149:2

  Let Israel be glad in its Maker; let the sons of Zion rejoice in their King.

• Proverbs 2:14

  who rejoice in doing evil, and exult in the perversities of evil,

• Proverbs 23:24

  The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice, and whoever fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

• Proverbs 23:25

  Let your father and your mother be glad, and let her who bore you rejoice.

• Proverbs 24:17

  When your enemy falls do not rejoice, and when he stumbles do not let your heart be glad,

• Song of Songs 1:4

  Draw me after you; let us run! The king has brought me into his chambers; we will exult and rejoice in you; we will recall your love more than wine; with uprightness they love you.

• Isaiah 9:3

  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.

• Isaiah 25:9

  And one will say on that day, “Look, this is our Elohim; we have waited for him, and he will save us. This is YHWH; we have waited for him; let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.”

• Isaiah 29:19

  And the humble will increase gladness in YHWH, and the needy among human beings will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

• Isaiah 35:1

  The wilderness and the dry land will be glad, and the Arabah will rejoice and blossom like the narcissus.

• Isaiah 35:2

  It will surely blossom and rejoice, yes, with rejoicing and shouting for joy; the glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon; they will see the glory of YHWH, the majesty of our Elohim.

• Isaiah 41:16

  You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them off, and the storm will scatter them; and you will rejoice in YHWH; in the Holy One of Israel you will glory.

• Isaiah 49:13

  Shout for joy, heavens, and rejoice, earth; break forth, mountains, into joyful shouting; for YHWH has comforted his people, and on his afflicted ones he will have compassion.

• Isaiah 61:10

  I will greatly rejoice in YHWH; my soul will exult in my Elohim, for he has clothed me with garments of salvation; with the robe of righteousness he has wrapped me, as a bridegroom puts on the headdress like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

• Isaiah 65:18

  But rather rejoice and exult forever in what I create; for look, I create Jerusalem as exultation, and her people as rejoicing.

• Isaiah 65:19

  And I will exult in Jerusalem and rejoice in my people; and no longer will be heard in her the sound of weeping or the sound of crying.

• Isaiah 66:10

  Be glad with Jerusalem and exult in her, all who love her; rejoice with her with rejoicing, all who mourn over her;

• Hosea 10:5

  For the calves of Beth-aven the inhabitants of Samaria will be afraid; for its people will mourn over it, and its pagan priests who rejoiced over it, over its glory, because it has gone into exile from it.

• Joel 2:21

  Do not fear, ground; rejoice and be glad, for YHWH has done great things.

• Joel 2:23

  And children of Zion, rejoice and be glad in YHWH your Elohim; for he has given you the early rain for righteousness, and has brought down for you the rain, early rain and late rain, as at the first.

• Habakkuk 1:15

  All of them he brings up with a hook; he drags them in his net and gathers them in his dragnet; therefore he rejoices and exults.

And 4 more times.