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גִּיל

to rejoice

also: exult, be glad fuller range ↓

H1523 Strong's Hebrew
gîyl Transliteration
/gheel/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 46 appearances

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Where this word appears

Grammar key — what these labels mean

Part of speech

Verb
An action or state-of-being word.

Stem

Qal
The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘rejoice’

Form

Imperfect
An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Imperative
A direct command (“write!”).
Cohortative
A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
Jussive
A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
Sequential Perfect
A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
Sequential Imperfect
An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).

Person

3rd Person
The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
2nd Person
The one addressed (“you”).
1st Person
The speaker (“I / we”).

Gender

Masculine
Grammatically masculine.
Feminine
Grammatically feminine.
Common
Either gender — not distinguished for this form.

Number

Singular
One.
Plural
More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).

Grammatical forms 14 distinct

  • Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 10 times (22%)
  • Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 7 times (15%)
  • Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular 6 times (13%)
  • Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural 5 times (11%)
  • Verb, Qal, Cohortative, 1st Person, Common, Plural 3 times (7%)
  • Verb, Qal, Cohortative, 1st Person, Common, Singular 3 times (7%)
  • Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Feminine, Singular 3 times (7%)
  • Verb, Qal, Jussive, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular 2 times (4%)

+6 more forms (7 occurrences)

Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 46 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.

Every verse where H1523 appears — 44 distinct verses across 10 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.

1 Chronicles 1 verse

Psalms 19 verses

Proverbs 4 verses

Song of Solomon 1 verse

Isaiah 11 verses

Hosea 1 verse

Joel 2 verses

Habakkuk 2 verses

Zephaniah 1 verse

Zechariah 2 verses

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