Laughter
צְחֹקStrong’s H6712tsechoq (tse-choq)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsechoq is the Hebrew word usually translated “laughter”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.”
Meaning
- Laughter, laughing stock
How it's translated
- laughter 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Ezekiel 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
צְחֹק tsechoq · laughter
laughter, laughing stock
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “laughter” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LAUGHTER, noun
l'affter. Convulsive merriment; an expression of mirth peculiar to man, consisting in a peculiar noise and configuration of features, with a shaking of the sides and expulsion of breath.
- “I said of laughter it is mad” Ecclesiastes 2:2
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.