שָׂשׂוֹןsâsôwn

exultation, rejoicing, exulation, joy, (especially in ׳ י's favour) (Isaiah 51:3; Psalms 45:8; Esther 8:16; Psalms 51:14; Psalms 119:111)

Pronunciation: saw-sone' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8342

Same root

שׂוּשׂsûws · H7797to be bright, i.e. cheerful

Where it appears

Appears 22 times in the Bible.

Esther 8:16 The Jews were filled with joy and gladness and were honored everywhere.
Esther 8:17 In every province and city, wherever the king’s decree arrived, the Jews rejoiced and had a great celebration and declared a public festival and holiday. And many of the people of the land became Jews themselves, for they feared what the Jews might do to them.
Psalms 45:7 You love justice and hate evil. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you, pouring out the oil of joy on you more than on anyone else.
Psalms 51:8 Oh, give me back my joy again; you have broken me— now let me rejoice.
Psalms 51:12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and make me willing to obey you.
Psalms 105:43 So he brought his people out of Egypt with joy, his chosen ones with rejoicing.

See every passage

Esther 8:16, 8:17
Psalms 45:7, 51:8, 51:12, 105:43, 119:111
Isaiah 12:3, 22:13, 35:10, 51:3, 51:11, 61:3
Jeremiah 7:34, 15:16, 16:9, 25:10, 31:13, 33:9, 33:11
Joel 1:12
Zechariah 8:19

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).