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Lexicon :: Strong's H1523 - gîl

Aa
גִּיל
Transliteration
gîl
Pronunciation
gheel
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 346

Strong’s Definitions

גִּיל gîyl, gheel; or (by permutation) גּוּל gûwl; a primitive root; properly, to spin round (under the influence of any violent emotion), i.e. usually rejoice, or (as cringing) fear:—be glad, joy, be joyful, rejoice.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 44x

The KJV translates Strong's H1523 in the following manner: rejoice (27x), glad (10x), joyful (4x), joy (2x), delight (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 44x
The KJV translates Strong's H1523 in the following manner: rejoice (27x), glad (10x), joyful (4x), joy (2x), delight (1x).

  1. to rejoice, exult, be glad

    1. (Qal)

      1. to rejoice

      2. to tremble (from fear)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גִּיל gîyl, gheel; or (by permutation) גּוּל gûwl; a primitive root; properly, to spin round (under the influence of any violent emotion), i.e. usually rejoice, or (as cringing) fear:—be glad, joy, be joyful, rejoice.
STRONGS H1523: Abbreviations
† [גִּיל] verb rejoice (NöZMG 1883, 537; compare Arabic جَالَ go round or about, be excited to levity, etc.) —
Qal Perfect גַּלְתִּי Isaiah 65:19; Imperfect יָגִיל, תָּגִיל Psalm 21:2 + 4 times (Psalm 21:2 Kt יגיל, Qr יָ֫גֶל with retracted tone); יָגֵל, תָּגֵל Psalm 13:6 + 11 times, וַיָּגֶל Psalm 16:9, אָגִילָה, נָגִילָה Psalm 9:15 + 5 times, יָגִילוּ Psalm 13:5 + 5 times, יְגִילוּן Psalm 89:17, תָּגֵלְנָה Psalm 48:12 + 2 times; יָגִו֯ל Proverbs 23:24; Imperative גִּילוּ Psalm 2:11 + 4 times, גִּילִי Isaiah 49:13 + 2 times; —
1. rejoice,
a. absolute Psalm 13:5; Psalm 51:10; Zechariah 9:9; || שׂמח Psalm 14:7; Psalm 16:9; Psalm 32:11; Psalm 48:12; Psalm 53:7; Psalm 96:11; Psalm 97:1; Psalm 97:8; Proverbs 23:24, 25; 1 Chronicles 16:31; Habakkuk 1:15; || שׂושׂ, שׂישׂ Isaiah 35:1; Isaiah 65:18.
b. with בְּ Psalm 149:2; Proverbs 2:14; Proverbs 24:17; Isaiah 9:2; בירושׁלם Isaiah 65:19; Isaiah 66:10; בישׁועתך Psalm 9:15; Psalm 13:6; Psalm 21:2; ביהוה Psalm 35:9; Isaiah 41:16; Zechariah 10:7; באלהים Isaiah 61:10; Habakkuk 3:18; בשׁם י׳ Psalm 89:17; בקדושׁ ישׂראל Isaiah 29:19; גיל ושׂמח ב׳ Psalm 31:8; Psalm 118:24; Songs 1:4; Isaiah 25:9; Joel 2:23; גילי ושׂמחי כ׳ Joel 2:21.
c. with עַל Zephaniah 3:17. Besides persons the subject is לֵב Psalm 13:6; Proverbs 24:17; Zechariah 10:7; נפשׁ Psalm 35:9; Isaiah 61:10, כבוד (= נפשׁ) Psalm 16:9, ארץ 1 Chronicles 16:31; Psalm 96:11; Psalm 97:1; Isaiah 49:13, ערבה Isaiah 35:1, 2.
2. tremble (compare Arabic وَجِلَ) Psalm 2:11 || עבד (Thes Ew Hi Che, but Greek Version of the LXX Hu De Pe AV RV rejoice), Hosea 10:5 || אבל (Thes and most modern, but AV RV that rejoiced over it), possibly error for חיל Ew Gr Che.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Chronicles

16:31; 16:31

Psalms

2:11; 2:11; 9:15; 9:15; 13:5; 13:5; 13:6; 13:6; 13:6; 14:7; 16:9; 16:9; 16:9; 21:2; 21:2; 21:2; 31:8; 32:11; 35:9; 35:9; 48:12; 48:12; 51:10; 89:17; 89:17; 96:11; 96:11; 97:1; 97:1; 97:8; 118:24; 149:2

Proverbs

2:14; 23:24; 23:24; 23:25; 24:17; 24:17

Song of Songs

1:4

Isaiah

9:2; 25:9; 29:19; 35:1; 35:1; 35:2; 41:16; 49:13; 49:13; 61:10; 61:10; 65:18; 65:19; 65:19; 66:10

Hosea

10:5

Joel

2:21; 2:23

Habakkuk

1:15; 3:18

Zephaniah

3:17

Zechariah

9:9; 10:7; 10:7

H1523

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Strong's Number H1523 matches the Hebrew גִּיל (gîl),
which occurs 46 times in 44 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:31 - Let the heavens have joy and let the earth be glad; let them say among the nations, The Lord is King.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:11 - Give worship to the Lord with fear, kissing his feet and giving him honour,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:14 - So that I may make clear all your praise in the house of the daughter of Zion: I will be glad because of your salvation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 13:4 - And he who is against me may not say, I have overcome him; and those who are troubling me may not be glad when I am moved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 13:5 - But I have had faith in your mercy; my heart will be glad in your salvation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:7 - May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! when the fate of his people is changed by the Lord, Jacob will have joy and Israel will be glad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:9 - Because of this my heart is glad, and my glory is full of joy: while my flesh takes its rest in hope.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:1 - <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> The king will be glad in your strength, O Lord; how great will be his delight in your salvation!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:7 - I will be glad and have delight in your mercy; because you have seen my trouble; you have had pity on my soul in its sorrows;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:11 - Be glad in the Lord with joy, you upright men; give cries of joy, all you whose hearts are true.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:9 - And my soul will have joy in the Lord; it will be glad in his salvation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:11 - Let there be joy in the mountain of Zion, and let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of your wise decisions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:8 - Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:6 - May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! When the fate of his people is changed by God, Jacob will have joy, and Israel will be glad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:16 - In your name will they have joy all the day: in your righteousness will they be lifted up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 96:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 96:11 - Let the heavens have joy and the earth be glad; let the sea be thundering with all its waters;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:1 - The Lord is King, let the earth have joy; let all the sea-lands be glad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:8 - Zion gave ear and was glad; and the daughters of Judah were full of joy, because of your decisions, O Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:24 - This is the day which the Lord has made; we will be full of joy and delight in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 149:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 149:2 - Let Israel have joy in his maker; let the children of Zion be glad in their King.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:14 - Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:24 - The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:25 - Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:17 - Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall:

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:4 - Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:3 - You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:9 - And in that day it will be said, See, this is our God; we have been waiting for him, and he will be our saviour: this is the Lord in whom is our hope; we will be glad and have delight in his salvation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:19 - And the poor will have their joy in the Lord increased, and those in need will be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:1 - The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:2 - It will be flowering like the rose; it will be full of delight and songs; the glory of Lebanon will be given to it; the pride of Carmel and Sharon: they will see the glory of the Lord, the power of our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:16 - You will send the wind over them, and it will take them away; they will go in all directions before the storm-wind: you will have joy in the Lord, and be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:13 - Let your voice be loud in song, O heavens; and be glad, O earth; make sounds of joy, O mountains, for the Lord has given comfort to his people, and will have mercy on his crushed ones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:10 - I will be full of joy in the Lord, my soul will be glad in my God; for he has put on me the clothing of salvation, covering me with the robe of righteousness, as the husband puts on a fair head-dress, and the bride makes herself beautiful with jewels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:18 - But men will be glad and have joy for ever in what I am making; for I am making Jerusalem a delight, and her people a joy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:19 - And I will be glad over Jerusalem, and have joy in my people: and the voice of weeping will no longer be sounding in her, or the voice of grief.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:10 - Have joy with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you her lovers: take part in her joy, all you who are sorrowing for her:

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:5 - The people of Samaria will be full of fear because of the ox of Beth-aven; its people will have sorrow for it, and its priests will give cries of grief for its glory, for the glory has gone in flight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:21 - Have no fear, O land; be glad with great joy; for the Lord has done great things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:23 - Be glad, then, you children of Zion, and have joy in the Lord your God: for he gives you food in full measure, making the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as at the first.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:15 - He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:18 - Still, I will be glad in the Lord, my joy will be in the God of my salvation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:17 - The Lord your God is among you, as a strong saviour: he will be glad over you with joy, he will make his love new again, he will make a song of joy over you as in the time of a holy feast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:9 - Be full of joy, O daughter of Zion; give a glad cry, O daughter of Jerusalem: see, your king comes to you: he is upright and has overcome; gentle and seated on an ass, on a young ass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:7 - And Ephraim will be like a man of war, and their hearts will be glad as with wine; and their children will see it with joy; their hearts will be glad in the Lord.
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