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גִּיל

gil · rejoicing

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1524 · appears 10 times in the Bible

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What it means

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

Great joy that shows outwardly.

How to say it

gil

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. Immense delight.
  2. Age: those of the same age.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • gladness ×3
  • jubilation ×3
  • exultation ×2
  • who are your age ×1
  • will greatly ×1

Related words

Comes from

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

Where it appears

  • Job 3:22

    to those who rejoice to the point of exultation, who are glad when they find the grave,

  • Psalms 43:4

    And I will come to the altar of Elohim, to El, the gladness of my jubilation, and I will give you thanks with the lyre, Elohim, my Elohim.

  • Psalms 45:15

    They are led with gladness and jubilation; they enter the palace of the king.

  • Psalms 65:12

    The pastures of the wilderness drip, and with jubilation the hills gird themselves.

  • Proverbs 23:24

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

  • Isaiah 16:10

    And joy and gladness are gathered away from the orchard, and in the vineyards there is no singing, no shouting; the treader does not tread out wine in the presses; the shout I have made cease.

  • Jeremiah 48:33

    And joy and gladness are gathered away from the orchard and from the land of Moab; and wine from the presses I have made cease; no one treads with the shout; the shout is no shout.

  • Daniel 1:10

    And the chief of the officials said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who assigned your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces more downcast than the youths who are your age? Then you would make my head guilty to the king.”

  • Hosea 9:1

    Do not rejoice, Israel, with exultation like the peoples, for you have prostituted yourself away from your Elohim; you have loved a prostitute's wages on all the threshing floors of grain.

  • Joel 1:16

    Has not the food been cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our Elohim?