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Joy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; that excitement of pleasurable feelings which is caused by success, good fortune, the gratification of desire or some good possessed, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire; gladness; exultation; exhilaration of spirits.

2. JOY is a delight of the mind, from the consideration of the present or assured approaching possession of a good.

3. Bring heavenly balm to heal my country's wounds,

4. JOY to my soul and transport to my lay.

5. Gayety; mirth; festivity.

6. The roofs with joy resound.

7. Happiness; felicity.

8. Her heavenly form beheld, all wished her joy

9. A glorious and triumphant state.

10. --Who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross. Hebrews 12:2 .

11. The cause of joy or happiness.

12. For ye are our glory and joy 1 Thessalonians 2:19 .

13. A term of fondness; the cause of you.

Joy [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To rejoice; to be glad; to exult.

2. I will joy in the God of my salvation. Habakkuk 3:18 .

Joy [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To give joy to; to congratulate; to entertain kindly.

2. To gladden; to exhilarate.

3. My soul was joyed in vain.

4. To enjoy; to have or possess with pleasure, or to have pleasure in the possession of. [Little used. See Enjoy .]

Joy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire; gladness; exhilaration of spirits; delight.

2. That which causes joy or happiness.

3. The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity.

4. To rejoice; to be glad; to delight; to exult.

Joy [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To give joy to; to congratulate.

2. To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.

3. To enjoy.

Joyace [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Enjoyment; gayety; festivity; joyfulness.

Joyance [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Gayety; festivity.

Joyancy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Joyance.

Joyed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Gladdened; enjoyed.

Joyed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Joy

Joyful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Full of joy; very glad; exulting.

2. My soul shall be joyful in my God. Isaiah 61:10 .

3. Rarely, it has of before the cause of joy.

4. Sad for their loss, but joyful of our life.

Joyful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Full of joy; having or causing joy; very glad; as, a joyful heart.

Joyfully [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. With joy; gladly.

2. Never did men more joyfully obey.

Joyfulness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Great gladness; joy. Deuteronomy 28:47 .

Joying [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Joy

Joyless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Destitute of joy; wanting joy.

2. With downcast eyes the joyless victor sat.

3. Rarely followed by of; as joyless of the grove.

4. Giving no joy or pleasure.

5. A joyless dismal, black and sorrowful issue.

Joyless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Not having joy; not causing joy; unenjoyable.

Joylessly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Without joy.

Joylessness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

State of being joyless.

Joyous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Glad; gay; merry; joyful.

2. Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs

3. Whispered it.

4. Giving joy.

5. They, all as glad as birds of joyous prime--

6. It has of, before the cause of joy.

7. And joyous of our conquest early won.

Joyous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Glad; gay; merry; joyful; also, affording or inspiring joy; with of before the word or words expressing the cause of joy.

Joyously [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

With joy or gladness.

Joyousness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The state of being joyous.

Joysome [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Causing joyfulness.

Pleasure Roget’s Thesaurus §827

N. pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition, oblectation, delectation, delection, relish, zest, gusto, satisfaction, complacency, well-being, good, snugness, comfort, ease, cushion, sans souci, mind at ease, joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine, cheerfulness, treat, refreshment, amusement, luxury, mens sana in corpore sano, happiness, felicity, bliss, beatitude, beautification, enchantment, transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy, summum bonum, paradise, elysium, third heaven|, seventh heaven, cloud nine, unalloyed happiness &c, hedonics, hedonism, honeymoon, palmy days, halcyon days, golden age, golden time, dixie, dixie's land, saturnia regna, arcadia, shangri-la, happy valley, agapemone

V. be pleased, feel pleasure, experience pleasure, joy, enjoy oneself, hug oneself, be in clover, be in elysium, tread on enchanted ground, fall into raptures, go into raptures, feel at home, breathe freely, bask in the sunshine, be pleased with, receive pleasure, derive pleasure, from, take pleasure, in, delight in, rejoice in, indulge in, luxuriate in, gloat over, enjoy, relish, like, love, take to, take a fancy to, have a liking for, enter into the spirit of, take in good part, treat oneself to, solace oneself with

Adj. pleased, not sorry, glad, gladsome, pleased as punch, happy, blest, blessed, blissful, beatified, happy as a clam at high water, happy as a clam, happy as a king, happy as the day is long, thrice happy, ter quaterque beatus, enjoying, joyful, hedonic, in a blissful state, in paradise, in raptures, in ecstasies, in a transport of delight, comfortable, at ease, content, sans souci, overjoyed, entranced, enchanted, enraptures, enravished, transported, fascinated, captivated, with a joyful face, with sparkling eyes, pleasing, ecstatic, beatic, painless, unalloyed, without alloy, cloudless

Adv. happily, with pleasure, with glee

Phr. one's heart leaping with joy, "a wilderness of sweets", "i wish you all the joy that you can wish", jour de ma vie, "joy ruled the day and love the night", "joys season'd high and tasting strong of guilt", "oh happiness, our being's end and aim!", "there is a pleasure that is born of pain", "throned on highest bliss", vedi napoli e poi muori, zwischen freud und leid ist die brucke nicht weit

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Genesis 31:27

Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?

Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.

Leviticus 9:24

And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.

Fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted for joy and fell facedown.

Numbers 10:10

Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.

And on your joyous occasions, your appointed feasts, and the beginning of each month, you are to blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.”

Deuteronomy 16:15

Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.

For seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the LORD your God in the place He will choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that your joy will be complete.

Deuteronomy 24:5

When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

If a man is newly married, he must not be sent to war or be pressed into any duty. For one year he is free to stay at home and bring joy to the wife he has married.

Deuteronomy 28:47

Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;

Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,

1 Samuel 18:6

And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.

As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instruments.

1 Kings 1:40

And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.

All the people followed him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth was split by the sound.

1 Kings 8:66

On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.

On the fifteenth day Solomon sent the people away. So they blessed the king and went home, joyful and glad in heart for all the good things that the LORD had done for His servant David and for His people Israel.

1 Chronicles 12:40

Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel.

And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.

1 Chronicles 15:16

And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.

David also told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers to lift up their voices with joy, accompanied by musical instruments—harps, lyres, and cymbals.

1 Chronicles 15:25

So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the house of Obed-edom with joy.

So David, the elders of Israel, and the commanders of thousands went with rejoicing to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the house of Obed-edom.

1 Chronicles 16:27

Glory and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place.

Splendor and majesty are before Him; strength and joy fill His dwelling.

1 Chronicles 16:33

Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.

Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before the LORD, for He is coming to judge the earth.

1 Chronicles 29:9

Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

And the people rejoiced at the willing response of their leaders, for they had given to the LORD freely and wholeheartedly. And King David also rejoiced greatly.

1 Chronicles 29:17

I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.

I know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.

1 Chronicles 29:22

And did eat and drink before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him unto the LORD to be the chief governor, and Zadok to be priest.

That day they ate and drank with great joy in the presence of the LORD. Then, for a second time, they designated David’s son Solomon as king, anointing him before the LORD as ruler, and Zadok as the priest.

2 Chronicles 7:10

And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.

On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the good things that the LORD had done for David, for Solomon, and for His people Israel.

2 Chronicles 20:27

Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.

Then all the men of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat at their head, returned joyfully to Jerusalem, for the LORD had made them rejoice over their enemies.

2 Chronicles 30:21

And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD.

The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy, and the Levites and priests praised the LORD day after day, accompanied by loud instruments of praise to the LORD.