ἀγαλλίαμα
exultation, joy
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀγαλλίαμα appears in the Greek Septuagint — 12 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Psalms 31:7 ἀγαλλίαμα You are my refuge from the affliction that encompasses me; my joy, to deliver me from them that have compassed me. Pause.
- Psalms 47:3 ἀγαλλίαμα God is known in her palaces, when he undertakes to help her.
- Psalms 118:111 ἀγαλλίαμα I have inherited your testimonies for ever; for they are the joy of my heart.
- Isaiah 16:10 ἀγαλλίαμα And gladness and rejoicing shall be taken away from the vineyards; and they shall not at all tread wine into the vats; for the vintage has ceased.
- Isaiah 22:13 ἀγαλλίαμα but they engaged in joy and gladness, slaying calves, and killing sheep, so as to eat flesh, and drink wine; saying, Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.
- Isaiah 35:10 ἀγαλλίαμα and shall return, and come to Sion with joy, and everlasting joy shall be over their head; for on their head shall be praise and exultation, and joy shall take possession of them: sorrow and pain, and groaning have fled away.
- Isaiah 51:3 ἀγαλλίαμα And now I will comfort you, O Sion: and I have comforted all her desert places; and I will make her desert places as a garden, and her western places as the garden of the Lord; they shall find in her gladness and exultation, thanksgiving and the voice of praise.
- Isaiah 51:11 ἀγαλλίαμα for by the help of the Lord they shall return, and come to Sion with joy and everlasting exultation, for praise and joy shall come upon their head: pain, and grief, and groaning, have fled away.
- Isaiah 60:15 ἀγαλλίαμα Because you have become desolate and hated, and there was no helper, therefore I will make you a perpetual gladness, a joy of many generations.
- Isaiah 61:11 ἀγαλλίαμα And as the earth putting forth her flowers, and as a garden its seed; so shall the Lord, even the Lord, cause righteousness to spring forth, and exultation before all nations.
- Isaiah 65:18 ἀγαλλίαμα But they shall find in her joy and exultation; for, behold, I make Jerusalem a rejoicing, and my people a joy.
- Isaiah 65:18 ἀγαλλίαμα But they shall find in her joy and exultation; for, behold, I make Jerusalem a rejoicing, and my people a joy.
About this word
About this word
ἀγαλλίαμα (agallíama), “exultation, joy,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 12 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →