Observations:
Note that
the happiness vocabulary are few in occurrences. However, for example, joy has many references.
Get oriented
to God and be happy.
Happy wisdom
relationship.
Happy
gracious relationship.
Happy law
relationship.
Happy
activities relationship.
Happy
prosperity relationship.
Happy
non-condemnation relationship.
Sad face but
happy heart.
Happy of
heart.
Delayed
military service and giving happiness to a wife.
Asher = a
happy name.
Millennial
happiness.
Happy
devotion to God.
Shallow
temporal happiness.
Suffering
little happiness.
Fleeting
happiness for leaders.
Error: Eliphaz the Temanite is speaking about happiness.
Baby happy.
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NAS Genesis 30:13 Then Leah said, "Happy am I! For women
will call me happy." So she named him Asher.
(Asher = a happy name.)
NAS 2
Chronicles 7:10 Then on the
twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people to their tents,
rejoicing and happy of heart because of the goodness that the LORD had shown to
David and to Solomon and to His people Israel. (Happy of heart.)
NAS Job 5:17 "Behold, how happy is the man whom God reproves, So do not despise the discipline of the Almighty. (Error: Eliphaz the Temanite is speaking about
happiness.) (Note Job
42:7 7 And it came
about after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, that the LORD said to
Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled
against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me
what is right as My servant Job has.)
NAS Psalm 128:2 When you shall eat of the fruit of your
hands, You will be happy and it will be well with
you. (Psalm 128:1-6 1 A Song of Ascents. How blessed is
everyone who fears the LORD, Who walks in His
ways. 2 When you shall eat of
the fruit of your hands, You will be happy and it will
be well with you. 3 Your wife
shall be like a fruitful vine, Within your house, Your children like olive
plants Around your table. 4
Behold, for thus shall the man be blessed Who fears the LORD. 5 The LORD bless you from Zion, And may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of
your life. 6 Indeed, may you
see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel!) (Get oriented to God and be happy.)
NAS Proverbs 3:18 She is a tree of life to those who take
hold of her, And happy are all who hold her fast.
(Happy wisdom relationship.)
NAS Proverbs 14:21 He who despises his neighbor sins, But happy is he who is gracious to the poor. (Happy gracious
relationship.)
NAS Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision, the people are
unrestrained, But happy is he who keeps the law.
(Happy law relationship.)
NAS Ecclesiastes 3:22 And I have seen that nothing is better than
that man should be happy in his activities, for that is his lot. For who will
bring him to see what will occur after him? (Happy activities relationship.)
NAS Ecclesiastes 4:16 There is no end to all the people, to all
who were before them, and even the ones who will come later will not be happy
with him, for this too is vanity and striving after wind. (Ecclesiastes
4:13-16 13 A
poor, yet wise lad is better than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receive instruction. 14 For he has come out of prison
to become king, even though he was born poor in his kingdom. 15 I have seen all the living
under the sun throng to the side of the second lad who replaces him. 16 There is no end to all the
people, to all who were before them, and even the ones who will come later will
not be happy with him, for this too is vanity and striving after wind.) (Fleeting happiness for leaders.)
NAS Ecclesiastes 7:3 Sorrow is better than laughter, For when a face is sad a heart may be happy. (Sad face but
happy heart.)
14 In the day of prosperity be
happy, But in the day of adversity consider-- God has
made the one as well as the other So that man may not discover anything that
will be after him. (Happy prosperity relationship.)
NAS Jeremiah 20:15 Cursed be the man who brought the news To my father, saying, "A baby boy has been born to
you!" And made him very happy. (Baby happy.)
NAS Jonah 4:6 So the LORD God appointed a plant and it grew up over Jonah to be a
shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. And Jonah was extremely
happy about the plant. (Shallow temporal happiness.)
NAS Romans 14:22 The faith which you have, have as your own
conviction before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he
approves. (Romans 14:20-23 20 Do not
tear down the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean,
but they are evil for the man who eats and gives offense. 21 It is good not to eat meat or
to drink wine, or to do anything by
which your brother stumbles. 22
The faith which you have, have as your own conviction before God. Happy is he
who does not condemn himself in what he approves. 23 But he who doubts is condemned
if he eats, because his eating is not
from faith; and whatever is not from faith is sin.) (Happy non-condemnation relationship.)
NAS Deuteronomy 24:5 "When a man takes a new wife, he shall
not go out with the army, nor be charged with any duty; he shall be free at
home one year and shall give happiness to his wife whom he has taken. (Delayed
military service and giving happiness to a wife.)
NAS Ecclesiastes 9:7 Go then, eat your bread in
happiness, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already
approved your works. (Get oriented to God and be happy.)
NAS Isaiah 52:7 How lovely on the mountains Are the feet of
him who brings good news, Who announces peace And
brings good news of happiness, Who announces salvation, And says to
Zion, "Your God reigns!" (Millennial happiness.)
NAS Lamentations 3:17 And my soul has been rejected from peace; I
have forgotten happiness. (Suffering little happiness.)
NAS 1 Corinthians 7:40 But in my opinion she is happier if she
remains as she is; and I think that I also have the Spirit of God. (1
Corinthians 7:35-40 35 And
this I say for your own benefit; not to put a restraint upon you, but to
promote what is seemly, and to secure undistracted
devotion to the Lord. 36 But
if any man thinks that he is acting unbecomingly toward his virgin daughter, if she should be of full age,
and if it must be so, let him do what he wishes, he does not sin; let her
marry. 37 But he who stands
firm in his heart, being under no constraint, but has authority over his own
will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin daughter, he will do well. 38 So then both he who gives his
own virgin daughter in marriage does
well, and he who does not give her in marriage will do better. 39 A wife is bound as long as her
husband lives; but if her husband is dead, she is free to be married to whom
she wishes, only in the Lord. 40
But in my opinion she is happier if she remains as she
is; and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.) (Happy devotion to God.)