KJV dictionary & concordance
Glad; gay; merry; joyful.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Isaiah 22:2
Complete exact-word concordance
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.
Thou that art full of stirres, a tumultuous citie, a ioyous citie: thy slaine men are not slaine with the sword, nor dead in battell.
Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
Is this your ioyous citie, whose antiquitie is of ancient dayes? her owne feete shall cary her afarre off to soiourne.
1611 marginal noteHeb. from afarre off.
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
Upon the land of my people shall come vp thornes, and briars, yea vpon all the houses of ioy in the ioyous citie.
1611 marginal noteOr, burning vpon. &c.
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.
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be ioyous, but grieuous: neuerthelesse, afterward it yeeldeth the peaceable fruite of righteousnesse, vnto them which are exercised thereby.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Glad; gay; merry; joyful.
