gil expresses rejoicing or glad celebration, whether directed toward the LORD, prompted by salvation, or voiced over another event.

The verb consistently marks rejoicing or glad celebration in diverse settings: people rejoice in the LORD and his salvation, Zion and Jerusalem are summoned to rejoice, creation is portrayed as rejoicing, and some verses describe joy over personal, familial, or even wrongful outcomes. The differing occasions do not require separate lexical senses.

1. Rejoicing or glad celebration · dominant

   Across Qal forms, the verb marks glad response or celebration: in Isaiah 25:9 the cohortative plural occurs in the call to rejoice in God's salvation, while Psalm 118:24 uses the same form for rejoicing in the day the LORD has made. Imperatives summon the land, Zion's children, and Jerusalem to such joy in Joel 2:21, Joel 2:23, and Zechariah 9:9; Isaiah 35:1 portrays the wilderness as rejoicing.

   Isaiah 25:9Psalm 118:24Joel 2:21Joel 2:23Zechariah 9:9Isaiah 35:1

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the verb with “rejoice,” often alongside “be glad” or “exult,” as in Isaiah 25:9 and Joel 2:23. These English variations should be read as renderings of the verse's overall expression of joy rather than as separate meanings of the lemma.