Enjoy
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Leviticus 26:34
- Last Reference: Hebrews 11:25
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1086 Used 1 time
- H1961 Used 1 time
- H3423 Used 2 times
- H7200 Used 3 times
- H7521 Used 3 times
- G5177 Used 1 time
- G619 Used 1 time
ENJOY', verb transitive
1. To feel or perceive with pleasure; to take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of. We enjoy the dainties of a feast, the conversation of friends, and our own meditations.
I could enjoy the pangs of death,
And smile in agony.
2. To possess with satisfaction; to take pleasure or delight in the possession of.
Thou shalt beget sons, but thou shalt not enjoy them. Deuteronomy 28:41.
3. To have, possess and use with satisfaction; to have, hold or occupy, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable. We enjoy a free constitution and inestimable privileges.
That the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. Numbers 36:8.
The land shall enjoy her sabbaths. Leviticus 26:34.
To enjoy one's self, is to feel pleasure or satisfaction in one's own mind, or to relish the pleasures in which one partakes; to be happy.
ENJOY', verb intransitive To live in happiness. [Unusual.]
ENJOY'ABLE, adjective Capable of being enjoyed.
ENJOY'ED, participle passive Perceived with pleasure or satisfaction; possessed or used with pleasure; occupied with content.
ENJOY'ER, noun One who enjoys.
ENJOY'ING, participle present tense Feeling with pleasure; possessing with satisfaction.
ENJOY'MENT, noun Pleasure; satisfaction; agreeable sensations; fruition.
1. Possession with satisfaction; occupancy of any thing good or desirable; as the enjoyment of an estate; the enjoyment of civil and religious privileges.