Lexical Definition

‎גִּיל‎ gîyl (gheel) rejoicing ^H:N-M
from ‎גִּיל‎

[idiom] exceedingly, gladness, [idiom] greatly, joy, rejoice(-ing), sort.

• a revolution (of time, i.e. an age)
• also joy

1) a rejoicing
2) a circle, age

See Greek: ἀγαλλίασις · εὐφροσύνη · ἡλικία · χαρά

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎גִּיל‎ noun [masculine] rejoicing — Job 3:22 + 6 t., ‎גִּו֯ל‎ Prov 23:24 suffix ‎גִּילִי‎ Ps 43:4 — rejoicing Ps 65:13*; Prov 23:24 || ‎שׂמחה‎ Ps 45:16*; Isa 16:10; Jer 48:33; Joel 1:16, ‎שִׂמְחַת גִילִי‎ Ps 43:4, ‎שׂמח אל גיל‎ glad unto rejoicing Hos 9:1; Job 3:22.

II. [‎גִּיל‎] noun [masculine] circle, age, ‎מן הילדים אשׁר‎ ‎כְּ גִלְכֶם‎ of the youths which are of your age Dan 1:10 (compare Arabic Samaritan ‎גיל‎ = Hebrew ‎דור‎ = γενεά, Talmud ‎בן גילו‎ one born at the same time, a contemporary).

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