שׂוּשׂ sûws — to be bright, i.e. cheerful
Translated in the KJV as be glad, × greatly, joy, make mirth, rejoice.
or שִׂישׂ; a primitive root; to be bright, i.e. cheerful.
sûws in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 13Perfect (qatal) 4Imperative 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Participle (active) 2Infinitive construct 1Infinitive absolute 1
And it shall come to pass, that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.
And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the Lord will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
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 ›