Senses
1. delight, exquisite pleasure — Intensive plural noun שַׁעֲשֻׁעִים (sha'ashu'im), always plural of intensity, denoting deep delight, exquisite pleasure, or supreme enjoyment. The most prominent usage is in Psalm 119 where the psalmist declares God's Torah to be 'my delight' (שַׁעֲשֻׁעָי) five times (vv. 24, 77, 92, 143, 174), expressing the intense pleasure found in divine instruction. Also used of personified Wisdom's delight before God in creation (Prov 8:30-31), of God's vineyard as his delight (Isa 5:7), and of Ephraim as a 'child of delight' to God (Jer 31:20). Arabic لَذَّة / مَسَرَّات 'pleasure/delights,' German Wohlgefallen 'delight/pleasure,' Korean 즐거움/기쁨 'joy/delight,' Spanish delicias/deleites 'delights,' French delice 'delight,' Hindi आनन्द 'bliss/joy.' All five auto-clusters represent the same lexeme with splitting caused only by pronominal suffixes (my/his/absolute) and conjunctive prefixes. 9×
AR["بَهجَتِهِ","تَلَذُّذٍ","لَذَّتِي","مَسَرَّاتٍ","وَ-مَسَرَّاتِي"]·ben["আনন্দ","আনন্দের-এর","আমার-আনন্দ","এবং-আমার-আনন্দ","তাঁর-আনন্দের"]·DE["[ושעשעי]","[שעשועיו]","[שעשעים]","hatte-gewesen-mein-Wohlgefallen","ist-mein-Wohlgefallen","sind-mein-Wohlgefallen"]·EN["and-my-delight","are-my-delight","daily-His-delight","delight","had-been-my-delight","his-delight","is-my-delight"]·FR["[שעשועיו]","[שעשעים]","délice","et-mon-ושעשעי-moi","שעשעים"]·heb["ו-שעשועי","שעשועיו","שעשועיי","שעשועים"]·HI["आनन्द","आनन्ददायक","उसकी-खुशी-का","और-आनन्द-मेरे","मेरा-आनन्द"]·ID["dan-kesenangan-ku","kesenangan","kesenangan-ku","kesukaan-Nya","kesukaanku"]·IT["[שעשועיו]","[שעשעים]","daily-Suo-delight","delizia","e-e-mio-delight-mio"]·jav["kabungahan","kasenengan","kasenengan-ipun","kasenengan-kula","lan-kabungahan-kula"]·KO["그리고-나-의-기쁨-들-은","그의-기쁘이","기쁨-이","나-의-즐거움-이라","나-의-즐거움-이로다","나-의-즐거움-이요","당신-의-율법-이","즐거움들의"]·PT["deleite-Seu","delícias","e-delícias-minhas","não-fosse-a-minha-delícia","são-as-minhas-delícias","é-a-minha-delícia"]·RU["и-утешение-моё -","любимое","отрады-Его","утешение-моё","утешением","утешением-моим"]·ES["deleites-de-mí","delicias","delicias-de-mí","su-deleite","y-delicias-mías"]·SW["furaha","furaha-yake","furaha-yangu","na-furaha-yangu","ni-furaha-yangu"]·TR["sevinc̄im","sevinç","sevinçlerin","ve-sevincim","zevkinin"]·urd["اس-کی-خوشی-کا","اور-خوشی-میری","خوشیاں","لاڈلے-کا","میری-خوشی","میری-خوشی-ہیں","میری-خوشی-ہے"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [שַׁעֲשֻׁעִים] -שׁוּעִים n.[m.]pl. intens. delight (BaNB 206);—abs. -שׁוּעִים Je 31:20 Pr 8:30; sf. -שׁוּעָיו Is 5:7, usually -שֻׁעַי Pr 8:31 ψ 119:24, -שֻׁעָ֑י v 77 + 3 times;—delight, in phr. נְטַע שׁ׳ Is 5:7 the planting of his delight (in which he took delight), so יֶלֶד שׁ׳ Je 31:20 (‖ בֵּן יַקִּיר); שׁ׳ אֶת־ Pr 8:31 my delight (was) with the sons of men; elsewhere = object of delight, of wisdom v 30; God’s law, etc., ψ 119:24, 77, 92, 143, 174.