Lexicon
ἀγαλλίασις
agalliasis
G0020
G:N-F Greek

joy

5
Occurrences
4
Books
Greek
Language

Agalliasis is expressed joy in scenes of glad fellowship, celebration, and standing blameless before God's glory.

The occurrences present agalliasis as joy expressed in glad fellowship, celebration, and response to significant events; it also appears in the prospect of standing blameless before God's glory. The supplied verses do not require separate lexical senses beyond this recurring joyful response.

Senses in use

  1. Expressed joy in celebration and response · dominant

    In Acts 2:46, the dative singular form occurs in the setting of shared meals, where the APB renders the verse with “gladness and sincerity of heart.” In Luke 1:14 the nominative singular form stands in the announcement that there will be “joy and gladness” at a birth, while Luke 1:44 and Jude 1:24 use the dative singular form in a child's leap at a greeting and in standing blameless before glory; Hebrews 1:9 has the genitive singular form in the phrase rendered “oil of joy.”

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the surrounding clauses with “gladness,” “joy,” and “rejoice,” including joy at a birth, a child's leap, shared food, anointing, and standing before glory. These renderings confirm the verses' joyful setting rather than assigning each English expression precisely to the lemma.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture