# H8057 שִׂמְחָה

שִׂמְחָה (simchâh), Strong’s H8057: blithesomeness or glee, (religious or festival) KJV: [idiom] exceeding(-ly), gladness, joy(-fulness), mirth, pleasure, rejoice(-ing).. Occurs 94 times.

Source: https://besorah.bible/word/H8057 — Besorah, the whole Bible in Hebrew, Greek and English. Texts and licences: https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html

*simchâh* — blithesomeness or glee, (religious or festival)

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

Derived from [שָׂמֵחַ sâmêach](https://besorah.bible/word/H8056) (blithe or gleeful)

Occurs 94 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- שִׂמְחָה 93 n.f. joy, gladness, mirth

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 31:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=27) — Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with…
- [Numbers 10:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/10?v=10) — “Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the…
- [Deuteronomy 28:47](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/28?v=47) — Because you didn’t serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of…
- [Judges 16:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/16?v=23) — The lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they…
- [1 Samuel 18:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/18?v=6) — As they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel…
- [2 Samuel 6:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/6?v=12) — King David was told, “The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that belongs to him, because of God’s ark.”…
- [1 Kings 1:40](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/1?v=40) — All the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth shook…
- [Isaiah 9:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/9?v=2) — You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest…
- [Isaiah 16:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/16?v=10) — Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither…
- [Isaiah 22:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/22?v=13) — and behold, there is joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and…