ἀγαλλιάομαι
rejoice greatly
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where ἀγαλλιάομαι appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 67 total occurrences). 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.
- 2 Samuel 1:20 ἀγαλλιάομαι Tell it not in Geth, and tell it not as glad tidings in the streets of Ascalon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
- 1 Chronicles 16:31 ἀγαλλιάομαι Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth exult; and let them say among the nations, The Lord reigns.
- Psalms 2:11 ἀγαλλιάομαι Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice in him with trembling.
- Song of Solomon 1:4 ἀγαλλιάομαι They have drawn you: we will run after you, for the smell of your ointments: the king has brought me into closet: let us rejoice and be glad in you; we will love your breasts more than wine: righteousness loves you.
- Isaiah 12:6 ἀγαλλιάομαι Exalt and rejoice, you⌃ that dwell in Sion: for the Holy One of Israel is exalted in the midst of her.
- Jeremiah 30:20 ἀγαλλιάομαι
- Lamentations 2:19 ἀγαλλιάομαι KOPH. Arise, rejoice in the night at the beginning of your watch: pour out your heart as water before the face of the Lord; lift up your hands to him for the life of your infants, who faint for hunger at the top of all the streets.
- Habakkuk 3:18 ἀγαλλιάομαι yet I will exult in the Lord, I will joy in God my Saviour.
About this word
About this word
ἀγαλλιάομαι (agalliáomai), “rejoice greatly,” 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 67 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 →
