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Strong's #6711: tsachaq (pronounced tsaw-khak')

a primitive root; to laugh outright (in merriment or scorn); by implication, to sport:--laugh, mock, play, make sport.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

tsâchaq

1) to laugh, mock, play

1a) (Qal) to laugh

1b) (Piel)

1b1) to jest

1b2) to sport, play, make sport, toy with, make a toy of

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 13 times:

Genesis 17:17: "fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred"
Genesis 18:12: "Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure,"
Genesis 18:13: "Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety"
Genesis 18:15: "Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said,"
Genesis 18:15: "And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh."
Genesis 19:14: "this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons-in-law."
Genesis 21:6: "me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh"
Genesis 21:9: "which she had born unto Abraham, mocking."
Genesis 26:8: "and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife."
Genesis 39:14: "See, he hath brought in a Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie"
Genesis 39:17: "thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock"
Exodus 32:6: "sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play."
Judges 16:25: "And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set"









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