glad
sa.me.ach describes being joyful or pleased, whether in celebration and blessing or, negatively, at another's harm.
The prevailing use describes people or hearts marked by joy in celebration, well-being, blessing, or God's great deeds. A smaller group places the same positive disposition in condemned settings: delight in evil, calamity, or another person's harm.
Senses in use
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Joyful in celebration or well-being · dominant
The adjective describes people returning to their tents with hearts made joyful by the good done for David, Solomon, and Israel in 2 Chronicles 7:10; in Deuteronomy 16:15, the singular form stands with the command to celebrate because of blessing on produce and work. It also characterizes a heart affected by toil in Ecclesiastes 2:10 and a community responding to the LORD's great deeds in Psalm 126:3.
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Joy directed toward evil or another's harm · occasional
The plural adjective identifies those who rejoice in doing evil in Proverbs 2:14. In Proverbs 17:5 it marks the person pleased at calamity, while Psalm 35:26 speaks of those rejoicing at the speaker's harm; both contexts attach adverse consequences or shame to that response.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses the APB uses "glad," "joyful," "rejoicing," and "merry-hearted" in clauses involving this term. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, those variations present the verses' overall wording rather than separate lexical definitions.