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Strong's #7832 - שָׂחַק
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- to laugh, play, mock
- (Qal)
- to laugh (usually in contempt or derision)
- to sport, play
- (Piel)
- to make sport
- to jest
- to play (including instrumental music, singing, dancing)
- (Hiphil) to laugh mockingly
- (Qal)
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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.
Qal Perfect 3 masculine singular ׳וְשׂ consecutive Proverbs 29:9; 3 plural שָֽׂחֲקוּ Lamentations 1:7; Job 30:1; Imperfect 3 masculine singular יִשְׂחַק Job 39:7 +, etc.; Infinitive construct שְׂחוֺק Judges 16:24; Ecclesiastes 3:4; —
1. a. laugh at, usually in contempt, derision, with עַל person Job 30:1; Psalm 52:8; עַל of thing Lamentations 1:7 with ל person God subject Psalm 37:13; Psalm 59:9 ("" לָעַג); with ל of thing or person= have no fear of, Habakkuk 1:10; Job 5:22; Proverbs 31:25 also, figurative, of noble animals Job 39:7,18,22; Job 41:21; absolute, Proverbs 29:9 (opposed to רָגַז), of ׳י Psalm 2:4 ("" לָעֵג), of wisdom Proverbs 1:26 (ב temporal; "" id.).
b. with אֶל person, apparently of friendly laugh Job 29:24; in General Ecclesiastes 3:4 (opposed to בָּכָה).
2 sport, play, Judges 16:27.
Pi`el Perfect 1 singular וְשִׂחַקְתִּ֫י 1 Samuel 6:21; Imperfect 3 masculine singular וַיְשַׂחֶקֿ Judges 16:25, etc.; Infinitive construct לְשֵׂחֶקֿ Psalm 104:26; Participle מְשַׂחֵק Proverbs 26:19; 1 Chronicles 15:29, feminine מְשֵׂחֶ֫קֶת Proverbs 8:30,31; plural מְשַׂחֲקִים 2 Samuel 6:5 +, מְשַׂחֲקוֺת 1 Samuel 18:7; —
1 make sport, Judges 16:25 (ל person) 2 Samuel 2:14 (לִפְנֵי person; in tournament), Proverbs 8:30 (לִפְנֵי), Proverbs 8:31 ב loc).
2 jest, Proverbs 26:19.
3 play: including instrumental music, singing and dancing 1 Samuel 18:7, c ׳לִפְנֵי י. 2 Samuel 6:5 (ב instrumental), = 1 Chronicles 13:8; 2 Samuel 6:21; 1 Chronicles 15:29 ( + מְרַקֵּד); of merry-making Jeremiah 15:17 ("" עָלַז), Jeremiah 30:19; Jeremiah 31:4; of children's sport Zechariah 8:5; of beasts Job 40:20; Psalm 104:25; of Prayer of Manasseh , play with (ב) crocod, Job 40:29.
Hiph`il (declar.) Participle. plural מַשְׂחִיקִים 2 Chronicles 30:10 they uttered mockery עֲלֵיהֶם ("" מַלְעִנִים).
שָׂחַק i.q. צָחַק (which see. [Compare Ethiop. ሠሐቀ፡ ሥሕቀ፡: and Zab. ܣܚܩ]), but more used in the later Hebrew
(1) to laugh, Ecclesiastes 3:4. Followed by אֶל to smile upon, Job 29:24 followed by עַל to deride, to laugh at any thing, Psalms 52:8; Job 30:1 followed by לְ id., but specially in contempt, to laugh at in contempt, especially, a person threatening to do much, but able to do nothing, Job 5:22, 39:7, 18 Job 39:18, 22 Job 39:22, 41:21 Proverbs 31:25.
(2) i.q. Pi. No. 3, Judges 16:27.
Piel שִׂחַק, fut. יְשַׂחֵק
(1) to joke, to jest (prop. to laugh repeatedly), Jeremiah 15:17.
(2) to play, to sport, e.g. as children, Zechariah 8:5 as marine animals, Psalms 104:26 compare Job 40:20, 29 Job 40:29also used of the play of arms and skirmishes, (Scharmüßel), 2 Samuel 2:14.
(3) to dance to music vocal and instrumental (just as we speak of playing on an instrument), Judges 16:25; 1 Samuel 18:7; 2 Samuel 6:5, 21 2 Samuel 6:21; 1 Chronicles 13:8, 15:29 Jerem. 30:19, קוֹל מְשַׂהֲפִים “the voice of dancers” (and singers). Jeremiah 31:4, בִּמְחוֹל מְשַׂחֲקִים “in the chorus of dancers,” Proverbs 8:30, 31.
Hiphil, to laugh at in scorn, to deride, followed by עַל 2 Chronicles 30:10.
Derivatives מִשְׂחָק, pr.n. יִשְׂחָק. i.q. יִצְחָק, and