masos · joy, delight

What it means

masos (מָשׂוֹשׂ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “joy, delight”.

Also what causes it.

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. Great delight, and also what causes it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• joy ×9
• rejoicing ×7
• rejoices ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×10
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×2
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1

• Job 8:19

  Look, this is the joy of his way; and from the dust others will sprout.

• Psalms 48:2

  Beautiful in its height, the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, the far reaches of the north, the city of the great king.

• Isaiah 8:6

  “Because this people has rejected the waters of Shiloah that go gently, and rejoices over Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

• Isaiah 24:8

  The rejoicing of the tambourines has ceased, the uproar of those who exult has ended, the rejoicing of the lyre has ceased.

• Isaiah 24:11

  An outcry over the wine in the streets; all joy has grown dark; the rejoicing of the earth has gone into exile.

• Isaiah 32:13

  on the ground of my people thornbushes and briers come up; yes, on all the houses of joy, the exultant town.

• Isaiah 32:14

  For the palace is forsaken, the tumult of the city deserted; the Ophel and the watchtower have become caves forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks,

• Isaiah 60:15

  Instead of your being forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you an eternal pride, a rejoicing of generation after generation.

• Isaiah 62:5

  For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you; and as the rejoicing of a bridegroom over a bride, so your Elohim will rejoice over you.

• 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 66:10

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

• Jeremiah 49:25

  How is not forsaken the city of praise, the town of my joy!

• Lamentations 2:15

  They clap their hands at you, all who pass by on the road; they hiss and shake their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that they called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth’?”

• Lamentations 5:15

  The joy of our heart has ceased; our dancing has been turned into mourning.

• Ezekiel 24:25

  And you, son of man, will it not be on the day when I take from them their stronghold, the joy of their beauty, the delight of their eyes, and the longing of their soul, their sons and their daughters,

• Hosea 2:11

  And I will put an end to all her joy: her feast, her new moon and her Sabbath, and all her appointed times.

And 1 more times.