shashua · delight

What it means

shashua (שַׁעְשֻׁעַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “delight”.

Joy; that in which someone finds pleasure. It is used often in Psalm 119 for God's instruction.

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. What gives pleasure and joy.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• delight ×8
• delights ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Psalms×5
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1

• Psalms 119:24

  Also your testimonies are my delight, my counselors.

• Psalms 119:77

  Let your mercies come to me, and I will live, for your instruction is my delight.

• Psalms 119:92

  Unless your instruction had been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.

• Psalms 119:143

  Distress and straits have found me; your commandments are my delight.

• Psalms 119:174

  I have longed for your salvation, YHWH, and your instruction is my delight.

• Proverbs 8:30

  I was beside him, a master builder, and I was his delight day by day, playing before him at all times,

• Proverbs 8:31

  playing in the world of his earth, and my delights were with the children of man.

• Isaiah 5:7

  For the vineyard of YHWH Tsevaot is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the planting of his delight; and he waited for justice, but look, bloodshed; for righteousness, but look, an outcry.

• Jeremiah 31:20

  Is Ephraim a dear son to me, or a child of delight? For as often as I speak of him, I still remember him; therefore my inward parts are stirred for him; I will surely have compassion on him, declares YHWH.