sason · joy, gladness

What it means

sason (שָׂשׂוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “joy, gladness”.

Joy, lively gladness.

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, festive delight.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• joy ×19
• rejoicing ×2
• gladness ×1

Where it appears

• Esther×2
• Psalms×5
• Isaiah×6
• Jeremiah×7
• Joel×1
• Zechariah×1

• Esther 8:16

  For the Jews there was light and gladness, and joy and honor.

• Esther 8:17

  And in every province, and in every city, in the place where the word of the king and his law reached, there was gladness and joy for the Jews, a banquet and a good day; and many of the peoples of the land became Jews, for the dread of the Jews had fallen on them.

• Psalms 45:7

  You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore Elohim, your Elohim, has anointed you with the oil of joy beyond your companions.

• Psalms 51:8

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

• Psalms 51:12

  Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and let a generous spirit sustain me.

• Psalms 105:43

  And he brought out his people with rejoicing, with shouts of joy his chosen ones.

• Psalms 119:111

  I have inherited your testimonies forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

• Isaiah 12:3

  And you will draw water with joy from the springs of salvation.

• Isaiah 22:13

  But look, rejoicing and joy, killing cattle and slaughtering sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

• Isaiah 35:10

  And the ransomed of YHWH will return and come to Zion with shouting for joy, and eternal gladness will be on their heads; joy and gladness they will obtain, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

• Isaiah 51:3

  For YHWH will comfort Zion, he will comfort all her ruins; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her Arabah like the garden of YHWH; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of song.

• Isaiah 51:11

  And the ransomed of YHWH will return, and come to Zion with joyful shouting, and eternal gladness will be on their head; joy and gladness they will obtain; sorrow and sighing will flee.

• Isaiah 61:3

  to appoint for those who mourn in Zion, to give them a headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit; and they will be called terebinths of righteousness, the planting of YHWH, to glorify himself.

• Jeremiah 7:34

  And I will make cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a ruin.

• Jeremiah 15:16

  Your words were found, and I ate them; and your word became to me a joy and the gladness of my heart, for your name is called over me, YHWH Elohim Tsevaot.

• Jeremiah 16:9

  For thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: Look, I am making cease from this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

• Jeremiah 25:10

  And I will make perish from them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

• Jeremiah 31:13

  Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; and I will turn their mourning into joy, and I will comfort them and make them rejoice out of their sorrow.

• Jeremiah 33:9

  And it will be to me a name of joy, a praise and a beauty before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the good that I am doing for them; and they will fear and tremble because of all the good and because of all the peace that I am bringing about for it.

• Jeremiah 33:11

  the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to YHWH Tsevaot, for YHWH is good, for his loyal love is forever,’ as they bring thanksgiving to the house of YHWH; for I will bring back the captivity of the land as at the first, says YHWH.

• Joel 1:12

  The vine has dried up, and the fig tree languishes; pomegranate, palm too, and apple tree, all the trees of the field have dried up; for joy has dried up from among human beings.

• Zechariah 8:19

  “Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth will be for the house of Judah joy and gladness and good festivals; so love truth and peace.