H4885 - מָשׂוֹשׂ (mâsôws)

H4885 מָשׂוֹשׂ (mâsôws) maw-soce'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

rejoicing

Strong's Definition

delight, concretely (the cause or object) or abstractly (the feeling)

Derivation: from H7797 (שׂוּשׂ);

KJV Usage: joy, mirth, rejoice.

TWOT Reference: 2246b

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) exultation, joy, rejoicing

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G25

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

exultation, joy, rejoicing

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מָשׂוֹשׂ mâśôś BDB Definition: 1) exultation, joy, rejoicing Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H7797 Same Word by TWOT Number: 2246b Total KJV Occurrences: 17

Bible Occurrences (16)

8:19

48:2

8:6 24:8 24:11 32:13 32:14 60:15 62:5 65:18 66:10

49:25

2:15 5:15

24:25

2:11

Job 8:19

Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.

Isaiah 8:6

Because... this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

Isaiah 24:8

The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.

Isaiah 24:11

In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.

Isaiah 32:13

and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers — even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.

Isaiah 32:14

For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever... — the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks —

Isaiah 60:15

Whereas you have been forsaken and despised, with no one passing through, I will make you an everlasting pride, a joy from age to age.

Isaiah 62:5

For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.