Limitless Word
מָשׂוֹשׂmâsôws/maw-soce'/
HebrewH488517 occurrences (KJV)

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

KJV renders it: joy, mirth, rejoice.

Where it appears(showing the first 16 of 17)

  • Job 8:19Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others shall spring.
  • Ps 48:2Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.
  • Isa 8:6“Because this people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;
  • Isa 24:8The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.
  • Isa 24:11There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.
  • Isa 32:13Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
  • Isa 32:14For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
  • Isa 60:15“Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no one passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.
  • Isa 62:5For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
  • Isa 65:18But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight, and her people a joy.
  • Isa 66:10“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;
  • Jer 49:25How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?
  • Lam 2:15All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”
  • Lam 5:15The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
  • Ezek 24:25You, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters,
  • Hos 2:11I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.