sameach · joyful, glad

What it means

sameach (שָׂמֵחַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “joyful, glad”.

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. Full of gladness, with spirits high.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• glad ×8
• rejoicing ×5
• joyful ×4
• rejoiced ×1
• who rejoice ×1
• whoever rejoices ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Kings×4
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Esther×2
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×4
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×1

• Deuteronomy 16:15

  Seven days you shall celebrate the feast to YHWH your Elohim in the place that YHWH chooses, for YHWH your Elohim will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.

• 1 Kings 1:40

  And all the people went up after him, and the people were playing on flutes and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth split with their sound.

• 1 Kings 1:45

  And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him as king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there rejoicing, and the city is in an uproar. That is the sound that you heard.

• 1 Kings 4:20

  Judah and Israel were many, like the sand that is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and rejoicing.

• 1 Kings 8:66

  On the eighth day he dismissed the people; and they blessed the king and went to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for all the good that YHWH had done for David his servant and for Israel his people.

• 2 Kings 11:14

  She looked, and there was the king standing by the pillar, according to the custom, and the commanders and the trumpets beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing the trumpets. Athaliah tore her clothes and cried out, “Conspiracy! Conspiracy!”

• 1 Chronicles 16:31

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

• 2 Chronicles 7:10

  On day twenty-three of the seventh month he dismissed the people to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the good that YHWH had done for David and for Solomon and for Israel his people.

• 2 Chronicles 23:13

  She looked, and there was the king standing by his pillar at the entrance, and the commanders and the trumpets beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing the trumpets, and the singers with instruments of song leading the praise. Athaliah tore her clothes and said, “Conspiracy! Conspiracy!”

• Esther 5:9

  And Haman went out that day glad and good of heart; but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, and that he did not rise and did not tremble before him, Haman was filled with fury against Mordecai.

• Esther 5:14

  And Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let them make a pole fifty cubits high, and in the morning tell the king that they should hang Mordecai on it; then go with the king to the banquet glad.” And the matter seemed good to Haman, and he made the pole.

• Psalms 35:26

  Let them be ashamed and abashed together, those who are glad at my harm; let them be clothed with shame and humiliation, those who magnify themselves against me.

• Psalms 113:9

  He settles the barren woman in a home, a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah.

• Psalms 126:3

  YHWH has done great things with us; we were glad.

• Proverbs 2:14

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

• Proverbs 15:13

  A glad heart makes the face good, but by the pain of the heart the spirit is crushed.

• Proverbs 17:5

  Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker; whoever rejoices at calamity will not go unpunished.

• Proverbs 17:22

  A glad heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bone.

• Ecclesiastes 2:10

  And whatever my eyes asked for I did not withhold from them; I did not keep back my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced from all my toil, and this was my portion from all my toil.

• Isaiah 24:7

  The new wine mourns, the vine languishes; all the glad of heart sigh.