Enjoy

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

A — 1: Τυγχάνω (Strong'S #5177 — Verb — tunchano — toong-khan'-o )

used transitively, denotes "to hit upon, meet with;" then, "to reach, get, obtain;" it is translated "enjoy" (i.e., obtain to our satisfaction) in  Acts 24:2 . See Chance , Common , Note (3), Obtain.

B — 1: Ἀπόλαυσις (Strong'S #619 — Noun Feminine — apolausis — ap-ol'-ow-sis )

"enjoyment" (from apolauo, "to take hold of, enjoy a thing"), suggests the advantage or pleasure to be obtained from a thing (from a root, lab---, seen in lambano, "to obtain"); it is used with the preposition eis, in  1—Timothy 6:17 , lit., "unto enjoyment," rendered "to enjoy;" with echo, "to have," in  Hebrews 11:25 , lit., "to have pleasure (of sin)," translated "to enjoy the pleasures." See Pleasure.

King James Dictionary

ENJOY',

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

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

The land shall enjoy her sabbaths.  Leviticus 26

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', To live in happiness. Unusual.

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( v. i.) To take satisfaction; to live in happiness.

(2): ( v. t.) To have sexual intercourse with.

(3): ( v. t.) To take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of; to feel or perceive with pleasure; to be delighted with; as, to enjoy the dainties of a feast; to enjoy conversation.

(4): ( v. t.) To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; to occupy or have the benefit of, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable; as, to enjoy a free constitution and religious liberty.