KJV dictionary & concordance
Glad, cheerful, joyful, festive, pleased, or enlivened in heart, often in connection with eating, drinking, feasting, celebration, or favourable circumstances.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Genesis 43:34
Complete exact-word concordance
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
A merry heart maketh a cheerefull countenance: but by sorrow of the heart, the spirit is broken.
1611 marginal noteChap.17.22.
All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
All the dayes of the afflicted are euill: but he that is of a merry heart, hath a continuall feast.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
A merrie heart doth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
1611 marginal noteOr, to a medicine.
1611 marginal noteChap. 15.13. and 12.25.
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