Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4885
מָשׂוֹשׂ
masosmaw-soce'
rejoicing
17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mâsôws
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4885is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4885
delight, concretely (the cause or object) or abstractly (the feeling)
The King James renders it: joy, mirth, rejoice.
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
masos is rendered "rejoicing". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Ten of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 8:19Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.
Job 8:19מְשׂ֣וֹשׂ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- joy of4
- gaiety of3
- a joy of2
- a joy1
- and joy of1
- and rejoicing1
- exultation1
- gaiety her1
- joy1
- joy my1
- rejoicing1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 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
- מְשׂ֣וֹשׂ3
- מְשׂ֥וֹשׂ3
- מְשׂ֖וֹשׂ2
- מָשׂ֔וֹשׂ2
- וּמְשׂ֥וֹשׂ1
- וּמְשׂ֤וֹשׂ1
- מְשׂ֪וֹשׂ1
- מָשׂ֖וֹשׂ1
- מָשֽׂוֹשׂ׃1
- מְשׂוֹשָׂ֔הּ1
- מְשׂוֹשִֽׂי׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)9HNcmsc
- noun · masculine singular4HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HC/Ncmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp1bs
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3fs
Job
one use
Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.
- מְשׂ֣וֹשׂmesosnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: joy of
Psalms
one use
Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.
- מְשׂ֪וֹשׂmesosnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: joy of
Isaiah
ten uses
“Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
- וּמְשׂ֥וֹשׂumesosconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and rejoicing
The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.
- מְשׂ֣וֹשׂmesosnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: gaiety of
- מְשׂ֥וֹשׂmesosnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: gaiety of
In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.
- מְשׂ֥וֹשׂmesosnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: gaiety of
and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.
- מָשׂ֔וֹשׂmasosnoun · masculine singulartagged: joy
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—
- מְשׂ֥וֹשׂmesosnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a joy of
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.
- מְשׂ֖וֹשׂmesosnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a joy of
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.
- וּמְשׂ֤וֹשׂumesosconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and joy of
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.
- מָשֽׂוֹשׂ׃masosnoun · masculine singulartagged: rejoicing
Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her, all who love her. Rejoice greatly with her, all who mourn over her,
- מָשׂ֔וֹשׂmasosnoun · masculine singulartagged: exultation
Jeremiah
one use
How is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy?
- מְשׂוֹשִֽׂי׃mesosinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: joy my
Lamentations
two uses
All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
- מָשׂ֖וֹשׂmasosnoun · masculine singulartagged: a joy
Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
- מְשׂ֣וֹשׂmesosnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: joy of
Ezekiel
one use
And you, son of man, know that on the day I take away their stronghold, their pride and joy—the desire of their eyes which uplifted their souls—and their sons and daughters as well,
- מְשׂ֖וֹשׂmesosnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: joy of
Hosea
one use
I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—all her appointed feasts.
- מְשׂוֹשָׂ֔הּmesosahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: gaiety her
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.