Definition

exultation; specially, welcome

Etymology

from G21 (ἀγαλλιάω);

Word family

• ἀγαλλιάω agalliáō

How the KJV renders it

• gladness
• (exceeding) joy

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.