מָשׂוֹשׂ mâsôws — delight, concretely (the cause or object) or abstractly (the feeling)
Translated in the KJV as joy, mirth, rejoice.
from H7797; delight, concretely (the cause or object) or abstractly (the feeling).
mâsôws in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Infinitive construct 1
וּמְשׂ֥וֹשׂ Isa 8:6 Infinitive construct
Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›