Word Summary
agalliasis: exultation, exuberant joy
Original Word: ἀγαλλίασιςTransliteration: agalliasis
Phonetic Spelling: (ag-al-lee'-as-is)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: exultation, exuberant joy
Meaning: exultation, exuberant joy
Strong's Concordance
gladness, exceeding joy.
From agalliao; exultation; specially, welcome -- gladness, (exceeding) joy.
see GREEK agalliao
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 20: ἀγαλλίασιςἀγαλλίασις,
(εως,
ἡ (
ἀγαλλιάω), not used by secular writers but often by the
Sept.;
exultation, extreme joy:
Luke 1:14, 44;
Acts 2:46;
Jude 1:24;
Hebrews 1:9 (from
Psalm 44:8 ()) oil of gladness with which persons were anointed at feasts (Psalm 23:5), and which the writer, alluding to the inaugural ceremony of anointing, uses as an emblem of the divine power and majesty to which the Son of God has been exalted.