Gematria of Joy
13 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “joy” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 476 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 13
- Occurrences
- 476
- Distinct values
- 11
The 13 Hebrew words rendered “joy”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
probably to brighten up, i.e. (figuratively) be (causatively, make) blithe or gleesome
First appearance ·Exodus 4:14שמות ד:ידוְשָׂמַח
blithesomeness or glee, (religious or festival)
First appearance ·Genesis 31:27בראשית לא:כזבְּשִׂמְחָה
properly, to spin round (under the influence of any violent emotion), i.e. usually rejoice, or (as cringing) fear
First appearance ·Isaiah 9:2ישעיהו ט:ביָגִילוּ
clamor, i.e. acclamation of joy or a battle-cry; especially clangorof trumpets, as an alarum
First appearance ·Leviticus 23:24ויקרא כג:כדתְּרוּעָה
properly, a creaking (or shrill sound), i.e. shout (of joy or grief)
First appearance ·1 Kings 8:28מלכים א ח:כחהָֽרִנָּה
good (as a noun), in the widest sense, especially goodness (superlative concretely, the best), beauty, gladness, welfare
First appearance ·Genesis 24:10בראשית כד:יטוּב
to be bright, i.e. cheerful
First appearance ·Deuteronomy 28:63דברים כח:סגשָׂשׂ
cheerfulness; specifically, welcome
First appearance ·Isaiah 12:3ישעיהו יב:גבְּשָׂשׂוֹן
delight, concretely (the cause or object) or abstractly (the feeling)
First appearance ·Isaiah 8:6ישעיהו ח:ווּמְשׂוֹשׂ
a revolution (of time, i.e. an age); also joy
First appearance ·Isaiah 16:10ישעיהו טז:יוָגִיל
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of joy?
The Tanakh renders “joy” with 13 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: שמח = 348, שמחה = 353, גיל = 43, and 9 more.
How do you say joy in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 13 Hebrew words for “joy”; the most frequent are שמח (sâmach), 156 times; שמחה (simchâh), 94 times; גיל (gîyl), 54 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.