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Hebrew
ŝimḥā - joy
(HALOT 1333)
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PC
*ŝmḫ
- to rejoice
(Greenfield 1959: 151)
The origin is unclear, one cannot exclude (with Greenfield and Kopf 1976:190) an eventual relationship to PS
*ŝmḫ
‘to be high, talľ (Kogan 2015: 307)