sim.chah is gladness expressed in celebration, worship, feasting, and the enjoyment of received good.

The dominant use denotes gladness publicly expressed through celebration, song, offerings, feasting, or communal return; other passages place it in personal enjoyment and contentment, while a small group shows gladness directed over another’s loss or desolation.

1. Celebratory gladness in communal worship and feasting · dominant

   The singular absolute noun occurs with public acts of celebration: in 1 Chronicles 29:22 the APB renders eating and drinking before the LORD "with great joy," and in 2 Chronicles 30:21 it describes a seven-day feast alongside daily praise. In Esther 9:19 it marks a day of feasting, giving portions to neighbors, and communal observance.

   1 Chronicles 29:222 Chronicles 30:212 Chronicles 20:27Ezra 6:22Esther 9:19Isaiah 55:12
2. Gladness as personal enjoyment or inward delight · common

   In Ecclesiastes 2:10 the noun names the enjoyment the speaker does not withhold from his heart amid his toil, while Ecclesiastes 8:15 joins eating, drinking, and rejoicing as what accompanies a person in toil. Jeremiah 15:16 uses the construct form in the clause where the received word becomes delight for the speaker’s heart.

   Ecclesiastes 2:10Ecclesiastes 8:15Ecclesiastes 9:7Ecclesiastes 2:26Jeremiah 15:16Psalm 16:11
3. Gladness directed over another's harm · rare

   The construct form marks the rejoicing of those addressed over Israel’s desolation in Ezekiel 35:15; Ezekiel 36:5 similarly places it with Edom’s taking of the land as a possession "with joy of all heart" and scorn. The clauses make the hostile object of the gladness explicit.

   Ezekiel 35:15Ezekiel 36:5Job 20:5

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term with "joy" or "rejoicing," especially in scenes of song, feasting, and worship; it also uses "gladness" and describes related rejoicing actions. These English expressions indicate the verse-level presentation rather than fixed individual renderings.