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Strong's #7814 - שְׂחֹק
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- laughter, laughing stock, mocking, derision
- laughter
- joyful
- hollow
- derision (of object)
- sport
- laughter
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2472) qhx (סההק SHhQ) AC: Laugh CO: ? AB: ?: [from: hc- coming from the belly]
V) qhx (סההק SHhQ) - Laugh: To laugh in play, sport or scorn. [df: qxV] KJV (36): (vf: Paal, Hiphil, Piel) play, laugh, rejoice, scorn, sport, merry, mock, deride - Strongs: H7832 (שָׂחַק)
cm ) qfhx (סההוק SHhWQ) - Laughter: [df: qwxV qxV] KJV (15): laughter, derision, laughing, mock, scorn, sport - Strongs: H7814 (שְׂחֹק)
hm ) qhxm (מסההק MShhQ) - Laughter: [df: qxVm] KJV (1): scorn - Strongs: H4890 (מִשְׂחָק)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 laughter (joyous) Job 8:21 ("" תְּרוּעָה), Psalm 126:2 ("" דִנָּה), Ecclesiastes 2:2 ("" שִׂמְחָה), Ecclesiastes 10:19 ("" שִׂמֵּחַ); as hollow Proverbs 14:13 (opposed to כָּאַב), Ecclesiastes 7:3 (opposed to כַּעַס), compare הַבְּסִיל׳שׂ Ecclesiastes 7:6.
2 (object of) derision, ׳הָיָה לִשׂ, Jeremiah 20:7; Jeremiah 48:26,27 (read ׳לִשׂ for ᵑ0׳הַשּׂ ᵐ5ᵑ6 ᵑ9 Gie Du; Co strike out vv), Jeremiah 48:39; Lamentations 3:14; elsewhere Job 12:4 (twice in verse)
3 sport Proverbs 10:23.
שְׂחֹק & שְׂחוֹק m.
(1) laughter, Ecclesiastes 2:2, 7:3, Job 8:21.
(2) derision, scorn, meton. of its object, Job 12:4; Jeremiah 20:7.
(3) jest, Proverbs 10:23.