# H4885 מָשׂוֹשׂ

מָשׂוֹשׂ (mâsôws), Strong’s H4885: delight, concretely (the cause or object) or abstractly (the feeling) KJV: joy, mirth, rejoice.. Occurs 17 times.

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*mâsôws* — delight, concretely (the cause or object) or abstractly (the feeling)

KJV: joy, mirth, rejoice.

Derived from [שׂוּשׂ sûws](https://besorah.bible/word/H7797) (to be bright, i.e. cheerful)

Occurs 17 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מָשׂוֹשׂ n.m. id. [שָׂשׂוֹן];—exultation

## Where it occurs
- [Isaiah 8:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/8?v=6) — “Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;
- [Isaiah 24:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/24?v=8) — The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.
- [Isaiah 24:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/24?v=11) — There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.
- [Isaiah 32:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/32?v=13) — Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
- [Isaiah 32:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/32?v=14) — For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens…
- [Isaiah 60:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/60?v=15) — “Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no one passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a…
- [Isaiah 62:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/62?v=5) — For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God…
- [Isaiah 65:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/65?v=18) — But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight, and her people…
- [Isaiah 66:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/66?v=10) — “Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over…
- [Jeremiah 49:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/49?v=25) — How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?