noun · feminine
agalliasias
Strong’sG20
exultation, exhilaration
stem agalliasi-5 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
† ἀγαλλίασις, -εως, ἡ
(< ἀγαλλιάω), [in LXX (most freq. in Pss. and often coupled with εὐφροσύνη, as Ps 44 (45):15) chiefly for גִּיל;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G20 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidag-al-lee'-as-is
exultation; specially, welcome
Fromfrom G21;
King Jamesgladness, (exceeding) joy.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
great joy, exultation, LXX+NT+3rd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | agalliasias1×ἀγαλλίασις | agalliasiais |
| object accusative | agalliasian | agalliasiain |
| direct address vocative | agalliasiar | agalliasiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | agalliasiau1×ἀγαλλιάσεως | agalliasiaiu |
| to, for dative | agalliasia3×ἀγαλλιάσει | agalliasiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
agalliasia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
agalliasias“gladness”subjectnominative singular1×
Luke 1:14“gladness”kai eti charas si kai agalliasias, kai pollois epi ta genesia autou …… be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice at his birth,
agalliasiau“gladness”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Hebrews 1:9“gladness”… tos theos, tos theos su, elaiem agalliasiau para toin metochoin su;… wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You above Your companions with the oil of joy.”
agalliasia“joy”to, fordative singular3×
Luke 1:44… eis teim oueim mu, skirtata en agalliasia tem brefem en ta koilia mu.… baby in my womb leaped for joy.
Acts 2:46“glad”… kata oikon arton, metalabale trofēau en agalliasia kai afelota kardiau,… to break bread from house to house, sharing their meals with gladness and …
Jude 1:24… katenōpion tau doxau autou amōmoin en agalliasia… unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy —