# שִׂמְחָה (simchah)

Israeli respelling: sim-chah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H8057. 89 Old Testament occurrences.

blithesomeness or glee, (religious or festival)

King James renderings: [idiom] exceeding(-ly), gladness, joy(-fulness), mirth, pleasure, rejoice(-ing).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/simchah-h8057

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 31:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/27) — Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and wi…
- [Numbers 10:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/10/10) — Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your…
- [Deuteronomy 28:47](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/47) — Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
- [Judges 16:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/16/23) — Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said…
- [1 Samuel 18:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/18/6) — And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Is…
- [2 Samuel 6:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/6/12) — And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the house of Obededom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of Go…
- [1 Kings 1:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/1/40) — And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound o…
- [1 Chronicles 12:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/12/40) — Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on…
- [1 Chronicles 15:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/15/16) — And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps an…
- [1 Chronicles 15:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/15/25) — So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the house…
- [1 Chronicles 29:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/29/9) — Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the kin…
- [1 Chronicles 29:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/29/17) — I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willi…
- [1 Chronicles 29:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/29/22) — And did eat and drink before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and ano…
- [2 Chronicles 20:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/20/27) — Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the…
- [2 Chronicles 23:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/23/18) — Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the hous…
- [2 Chronicles 29:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/29/30) — Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the see…
- [2 Chronicles 30:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/30/21) — And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levite…
- [2 Chronicles 30:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/30/23) — And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.
- [2 Chronicles 30:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/30/26) — So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.
- [Ezra 3:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/3/12) — But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of t…
- [Ezra 3:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/3/13) — So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with…
- [Ezra 6:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/6/22) — And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria…
- [Nehemiah 8:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/8/12) — And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the word…
- [Nehemiah 8:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/8/17) — And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Jes…
- [Nehemiah 12:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/12/27) — And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the ded…
- [Nehemiah 12:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/12/43) — Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children re…
- [Nehemiah 12:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/12/44) — And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to ga…
- [Esther 8:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/8/16) — The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour.
- [Esther 8:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/8/17) — And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast…
- [Esther 9:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/9/17) — On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
- [Esther 9:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/9/18) — But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day…
- [Esther 9:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/9/19) — Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feast…
- [Esther 9:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/9/22) — As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into…
- [Job 20:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/20/5) — That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
- [Psalms 4:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/4/7) — Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
- [Psalms 16:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/16/11) — Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
- [Psalms 21:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/21/6) — For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.
- [Psalms 30:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/30/11) — Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
- [Psalms 43:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/43/4) — Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
- [Psalms 45:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/45/15) — With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace.
- [Psalms 51:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/51/8) — Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
- [Psalms 68:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/68/3) — But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
- [Psalms 97:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/97/11) — Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
- [Psalms 100:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/100/2) — Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
- [Psalms 106:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/106/5) — That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.
- [Psalms 137:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/137/3) — For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the…
- [Psalms 137:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/137/6) — If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
- [Proverbs 10:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/10/28) — The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
- [Proverbs 12:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/12/20) — Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
- [Proverbs 14:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/14/10) — The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
- [Proverbs 14:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/14/13) — Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
- [Proverbs 15:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/21) — Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
- [Proverbs 15:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/23) — A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
- [Proverbs 21:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/21/15) — It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
- [Proverbs 21:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/21/17) — He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
- [Ecclesiastes 2:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/1) — I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
- [Ecclesiastes 2:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/2) — I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
- [Ecclesiastes 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/10) — And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and th…
- [Ecclesiastes 2:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/26) — For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to hea…
- [Ecclesiastes 5:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/5/20) — For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.
- [Ecclesiastes 7:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/7/4) — The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
- [Ecclesiastes 8:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/8/15) — Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide…
- [Ecclesiastes 9:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/9/7) — Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
- [Song of Solomon 3:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/3/11) — Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and…
- [Isaiah 9:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/9/3) — Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when t…
- [Isaiah 16:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/16/10) — And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shou…
- [Isaiah 22:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/22/13) — And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall…
- [Isaiah 24:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/24/11) — There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
- [Isaiah 29:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/29/19) — The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
- [Isaiah 30:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/29) — Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the…
- [Isaiah 35:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/35/10) — And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and glad…
- [Isaiah 51:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/51/3) — For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the g…
- [Isaiah 51:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/51/11) — Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall…
- [Isaiah 55:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/55/12) — For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all t…
- [Isaiah 61:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/61/7) — For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the…
- [Isaiah 66:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/66/5) — Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake, said, Let the L…
- [Jeremiah 7:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/7/34) — Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the…
- [Jeremiah 15:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/15/16) — Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD…
- [Jeremiah 16:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/16/9) — For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the vo…
- [Jeremiah 25:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/25/10) — Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the…
- [Jeremiah 31:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/31/7) — For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, sa…
- [Jeremiah 33:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 them that shall say, Pra…
- [Jeremiah 48:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/48/33) — And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: non…
- [Ezekiel 35:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/35/15) — As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O…
- [Ezekiel 36:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/36/5) — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idum…
- [Joel 1:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/1/16) — Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
- [Jonah 4:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/4/6) — And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grie…
- [Zephaniah 3:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/3/17) — The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy ov…
- [Zechariah 8:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/8/19) — Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the ten…