H8191 H8191
Delight, exquisite pleasure; an intensive plural noun expressing deep enjoyment, often directed toward God's law or wisdom.
An intensive plural noun expressing profound delight and supreme enjoyment, most characteristically used in Psalm 119 to describe the psalmist's passionate love for God's Torah. Five of its nine occurrences appear in that single psalm (119:24, 77, 92, 143, 174), where the law is described as the speaker's delight in times of affliction and wandering. In Proverbs 8:30-31, personified Wisdom declares she was God's daily delight at creation, rejoicing in the inhabited world. Isaiah 5:7 calls Judah the 'planting of his delight,' and Jeremiah 31:20 names Ephraim a 'child of delight.' Spanish 'delicias' and French 'délice' beautifully capture the intensive, almost ecstatic quality.
Senses
1. delight, exquisite pleasure — Deep, intensive delight or exquisite pleasure, always in the plural of intensity (שַׁעֲשֻׁעִים). The word expresses more than ordinary enjoyment—it conveys a kind of rapturous engagement. In Psalm 119 (vv. 24, 77, 92, 143, 174), the psalmist declares God's testimonies and Torah to be his 'delights,' the sustaining joy that preserves him through suffering. In Proverbs 8:30-31, Wisdom herself was God's daily delight before creation and found her delight among humanity. Isaiah 5:7 and Jeremiah 31:20 use it for God's tender delight in his people. Spanish 'delicias' and 'deleites,' French 'délice,' and German evidence all point to a register of intense, deeply personal pleasure. 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"]
Related Senses
G2309 1. want, desire (166×)G0025 1. to love actively (133×)H0157 1. love (verb, active Qal) (129×)H8055 1. Qal: rejoice, be glad (123×)H7453 1. neighbor, fellow man (120×)G0026 1. of love (115×)H1058 1. Qal: to weep, cry (112×)H0954 1. to be ashamed, feel shame (Qal) (95×)H8057 1. joy, gladness, delight (90×)H2781 1. disgrace, shame, dishonor (68×)G2307 1. will, desire, purpose (63×)G5463 1. rejoice, be glad (63×)G0027 1. beloved (61×)H8130 1. Qal: to hate, detest (60×)G5479 1. (59×)G1680 1. (53×)H8130 2. Qal ptcp: hater, enemy (53×)H0014 1. be willing, want (51×)H0157 2. lover, friend (Qal participle substantive) (51×)H1945 1. woe (50×)
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.