Merry

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Εὐφραίνω (Strong'S #2165 — Verb — euphraino — yoo-frah'ee-no )

in the Active Voice, "to cheer, make glad,"  2—Corinthians 2:2 , is used everywhere else in the Passive Voice, signifying, "to be happy, rejoice, make merry," and translated "to be merry" in  Luke 12:19;  15:23,24,29,32; in  Luke 16:19 , "fared (sumptuously);" in  Revelation 11:10 , "make merry." See Fare , Glad , Rejoice.

2: Εὐθυμέω (Strong'S #2114 — Verb — euthumeo — yoo-thoo-meh'-o )

from eu, "well," and thumos, "the soul," as the principle of feeling, especially strong feeling, signifies "to make cheerful;" it is used intransitively in the NT, "to be of good cheer,"  Acts 27:22,25; in  James 5:13 , RV, "is (any) cheerful?" (AV, "... merry?"). See Cheer.

King James Dictionary

MER'RY, a.

1. Gay and noisy jovial exhilarated to laughter.

Man is the merriest species of the creation.

They drank and were merry with him.  Genesis 43

2. Causing laughter or mirth as a merry jest. 3. Brisk as a merry gale. This is the primary sense of the word. 4. Pleasant agreeable delightful.

To make merry, to be jovial to indulge in hilarity to feast with mirth.  Judges 9 .

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) A kind of wild red cherry.

(2): ( superl.) Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight; as, / merry jest.

(3): ( superl.) Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play; sportive.

(4): ( superl.) Cheerful; joyous; not sad; happy.