גִּיל
gîyl · H1524 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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rejoicing, gladness
Mainly in poetical texts: state in which humans feel and show great joy
ExamplesJob 3:22 Who are filled with jubilation, And rejoice when they find the grave?
Psalm 43:4 Then I will go to the altar of God, To God my exceeding joy; And I will praise You on the lyre, God, my God.
Psalm 45:15 They will be brought with joy and rejoicing; They will enter into the King’s palace.
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age, life
Amount of time lived by humans
ExamplesPsalm 43:4 Then I will go to the altar of God, To God my exceeding joy; And I will praise You on the lyre, God, my God.
Daniel 1:10 The commander of the officials said to Daniel, “I am afraid of my lord the king, who has allotted your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces looking gaunt in comparison to the youths who are your own age? Then you would make me forfeit my head to the king.”
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- יmy 1
- כֶםyour 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- אָסַףto gather, to assemble 2
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חָגַרto be girded with 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- אֵלto, toward 4
- בin/on/with 2
- כlike/as 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שִׂמְחָהjoy 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 5 words
- שָׂשׂוֹן sâsôwn · H8342 · joy, gladness, delight
- Both are abstract nouns denoting the emotional state/experience of joy/gladness, with highly overlapping glosses. This is genuine same-language near-synonymy (two distinct Hebrew words for joy/rejoicing that could substitute in many contexts).
- שַׁעְשֻׁעַ shaʻshuaʻ · H8191 · joy, delight
- גִּיל (gîyl, H1524) (gladness, joy, rejoicing) and שַׁעְשֻׁעַ (shaʻshuaʻ, H8191) (delight, pleasure) both denote positive emotional states of joy and delight that overlap in sense.
- רִנָּה rinnâh · H7440 · shout, cry
- Both lexemes denote states or expressions of joy, genuinely overlapping within the broader field of gladness and rejoicing.
- רְנָנָה rᵉnânâh · H7445 · shouts of joy
- Both words point to joy and rejoicing: גִּיל (gîyl, H1524) ("gladness, joy, rejoice(-ing)") and רְנָנָה (rᵉnânâh, H7445) ("joyful (voice), singing, triumphing") overlap in the sphere of joy and celebration.
- מָשׂוֹשׂ mâsôws · H4885 · joy, gladness, delight
- Both words are abstract nouns denoting joy, gladness, or rejoicing, and could substitute for one another in many contexts.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἀγαλλίασις agallíasis · G20 · to be extremely joyful, to rejoice greatly, extreme gladness
- Greek ἀγαλλίασις denotes exultant joy or jubilation, directly rendering Hebrew גִּיל's sense of intense gladness and rejoicing, particularly in contexts of celebration or worship.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Rejoice002001002022
- The noun names the joy or rejoicing that is the emotional content shared with the related verb (גִּיל (gîyl, H1523)), describing gladness at what God has done.
- Stage002001001060
- This code is inherited from the shared listing with a related sense of this word family rather than an independent feature of this noun's own attested occurrences of joy.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1524. giyl I. גִּיל noun [masculine] rejoicing — Job 3:22 Job 3:6t., גִּו֯ל Pro 23:24;…
I. גִּיל noun [masculine] rejoicing — Job 3:22 Job 3:6t., גִּו֯ל Pro 23:24; suffix גִּילִי Psa 43:4; — rejoicing Psa 65:13; Pro 23:24; || שׂמחה Psa 45:16; Isa 16:10; Jer 48:33; Joe 1:16, גִילִי שִׂמְחַת Psa 43:4, גיל אל שׂמח glad unto rejoicing Hos 9:1; Job 3:22.
II. [גִּיל] noun [masculine] circle, age, גִלְכֶם כְּ אשׁר הילדים מן of the youths which are of your age Dan 1:10 (compare Arabic Samaritan גיל = Hebrew דור = γενεά, Talmud גילו בן one born at the same time, a contemporary).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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