עַלִּיז
exultant
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 4 times (57%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Construct 2 times (29%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (14%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 7 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H5947 appears — 7 distinct verses across 2 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.
Isaiah 5 verses
- Isaiah 13:3 עַלִּיזֵ֖י adj Adjective mp cs I have commanded my consecrated ones, yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
- Isaiah 22:2 עַלִּיזָ֑ה adj Adjective fs You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.
- Isaiah 23:7 עַלִּיזָ֑ה adj Adjective fs Is this your joyous [city], whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her afar off to sojourn?
- Isaiah 24:8 עַלִּיזִ֑ים adj Adjective mp The mirth of tambourines ceases, the noise of those who rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases.
- Isaiah 32:13 עַלִּיזָֽה adj Adjective fs On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Zephaniah 2 verses
- Zephaniah 2:15 הָ/עַלִּיזָה֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fs This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is none besides me." How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.
- Zephaniah 3:11 עַלִּיזֵי֙ adj Adjective mp cs In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out of the midst of you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be haughty in my holy mountain.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
עליז (ʻallîyz) is a Hebrew adjective most often rendered “exultant.” It clusters heavily in Isaiah, which alone accounts for 71% of its uses. It turns up in 7 verses across 2 books, an uncommon footprint. Scripture first uses it in Isaiah 13:3. It clusters with עלז and עלז under a shared root. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5947 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,835
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,835 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 7 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Joyous 2×, Rejoice 2×
- American Standard Version: Joyous 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Revelry 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Exultant 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5947 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5947 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5947 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5947 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- exultant, jubilant
Word origin
[ עַלִּיז ] adj. exultant, jubilant
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עלז (ʻâlaz) (H5937) — to rejoice.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עַלִּיז
- frolicsome, wanton. Mekh. B’shall. 4 מלכות הע׳ the wanton (Roman) government; Yalk. Jer. 300.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms H5947 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| עַלִּיזָ֑ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 22:2 | 2 |
| הָ/עַלִּיזָה֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Zephaniah 2:15 | 1 |
| עַלִּיזִ֑ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Isaiah 24:8 | 1 |
| עַלִּיזֵ֖י | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Isaiah 13:3 | 1 |
| עַלִּיזֵי֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Zephaniah 3:11 | 1 |
| עַלִּיזָֽה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 32:13 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5947, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 7 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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