שָׂמֵחַ sâmêach — blithe or gleeful
Translated in the KJV as glad, joyful, merry, -ily), rejoice.
from H8055; blithe or gleeful.
sâmêach in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Participle (active) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
וּשְׂמֵחִ֖ים 1Kgs 1:40 Participle (active), masculine plural
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.
יִשְׂמְח֤וּ 1Chr 16:31 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine plural
Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The Lord reigneth.
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 ›