Laughter
שְׂחֹקStrong’s H7814sechoq (se-choq)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sechoq is the Hebrew word usually translated “laughingstock”, “laughing stock” and “laughter”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.”
Meaning
- Laughter, laughing stock, mocking, derisionlaughter · derision (of object) · sport
How it's translated
- a laughingstock 3
- a laughing stock 3
- laughter 2
- like sport 1
- in laughter 1
- of laughter 1
- more than laughter 1
- laughter of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 4
- Jeremiah 4
- Job 2
- Proverbs 2
- Psalms 1
- Lamentations 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Job 12:4I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
- Psalms 126:2Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.
- Proverbs 10:23It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
- Proverbs 14:13Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
- Ecclesiastes 2:2I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
- Ecclesiastes 7:3Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Hebrew dictionary
שְׂחֹק sechoq · laughter
1) laughter, laughing stock, mocking, derision 1a) laughter 1a1) joyful 1a2) hollow 1b) derision (of object) 1c) sport
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.