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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.

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4 KJV and 3 BSB verses contain “joyous”

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.”

Nehemiah 12:27

And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.

At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from all their homes and brought to Jerusalem to celebrate the joyous dedication with thanksgiving and singing, accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres.

Isaiah 22:2

Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.

O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.

Isaiah 23:7

Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

Is this your jubilant city, whose origin is from antiquity, whose feet have taken her to settle far away?

Isaiah 32:13

Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers— even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.

Luke 16:19

There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:

Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.

Hebrews 12:11

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.