Strong's #7832: sachaq (pronounced saw-khak')

a primitive root; to laugh (in pleasure or detraction); by implication, to play:--deride, have in derision, laugh, make merry, mock(-er), play, rejoice, (laugh to) scorn, be in (make) sport.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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śâchaq

1) to laugh, play, mock

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to laugh (usually in contempt or derision)

1a2) to sport, play

1b) (Piel)

1b1) to make sport

1b2) to jest

1b3) to play (including instrumental music, singing, dancing)

1c) (Hiphil) to laugh mockingly

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 36 times:

 

Judges 16:25: "that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house;"
Judges 16:27: "and women, that beheld while Samson made sport."
1 Samuel 18:7: "And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David"
2 Samuel 2:14: "Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise."
2 Samuel 6:5: "and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir"
2 Samuel 6:21: "over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD."
1 Chronicles 13:8: "And David and all Israel played before God with all their might,"
1 Chronicles 15:29: "king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart."
2 Chronicles 30:10: "through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn,"
Job 5:22: "At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth."
Job 29:24: " If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down."
Job 30:1: "But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers"
Job 39:7: " He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver."
Job 39:18: "What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider."
Job 39:22: " He mocketh at fear, and is not frightened; neither turneth he back from"
Job 40:20: "all the beasts of the field play."
Job 41:5: " Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?"
Job 41:29: "Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear."
Psalms 2:4: "He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision."
Psalms 37:13: "The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming."
Psalms 52:6: "The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at"
Psalms 59:8: "But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision."
Psalms 104:26: "there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play"
Proverbs 1:26: "I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;"
Proverbs 8:30: "with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before"
Proverbs 8:31: " Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men."
Proverbs 26:19: "and saith, Am not I in sport?"
Proverbs 29:9: "a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest."
Proverbs 31:25: "Strength and honor are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come."
Ecclesiastes 3:4: "A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;"
Jeremiah 15:17: "I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because"
Jeremiah 30:19: "them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify"
Jeremiah 31:4: "with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry."
Lamentations 1:7: "and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths."
Habakkuk 1:10: "and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every stronghold; for they shall heap dust,"
Zechariah 8:5: "shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets"