Luke 15:23

Be merry - Literally, “eating, let us rejoice.” The word “merry” does not quite express the meaning of the Greek. “Merriment” denotes a light, playful, jovial mirth. The Greek denotes simply “joy - let us be happy, or joyful.”

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²³ And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:

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