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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1525

גִּילָה

gilahghee-law'

rejoicing

2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: gîylâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1525is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 1 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 2
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1525

joy

The King James renders it: joy, rejoicing.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

gilah is rendered "rejoicing". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.

  • Two of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Isaiah 35:2It will bloom profusely and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God.
  • The Greek text spells it two different ways.

The first use

It will bloom profusely and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God.

Isaiah 35:2גִּילַ֣ת

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Two of the word's two uses are in Isaiah.

The other 38 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • gladness2

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

גִּילgilto rejoiceUses45
גִּילgilrejoicingUses9
גִּידgidsinewUses7
גִּיחַgiachto burst/come outUses6
גִּילֹנִיGiloniGiloniteUses2
גִּירgirplasterUses1
גִּיחַgiachto striveUses1

All 2, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

2 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • גִּילָ֖ה1
  • גִּילַ֣ת1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfsc

Isaiah

two uses
  • It will bloom profusely and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God.

    Isaiah 35:2

    • גִּילַ֣תgilatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: gladness
  • But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight.

    Isaiah 65:18

    • גִּילָ֖הgilahnoun · feminine singulartagged: gladness

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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