שָׂחַק sachaq
Hebrew word for “to laugh” · Strong’s H7832 · used 36 times in 36 verses
Meaning
1) to laugh, play, mock;
How it is translated
Glosses given for sachaq in context, with how often each is used:
- laughs 7
- playing 4
- will laugh 3
- laughed 3
- merry makers 3
- making merry 2
- play 2
- laugh 2
- may make sport 1
- when sported 1
- who were playing 1
- them play 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Job | 9 | 1.1 | |
| Proverbs | 6 | 0.9 | |
| Psalms | 5 | 0.3 | |
| 2 Samuel | 3 | 0.3 | |
| Jeremiah | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Judges | 2 | 0.2 | |
| 1 Chronicles | 2 | 0.2 | |
| 1 Samuel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Ecclesiastes | 1 | 0.3 | |
| Lamentations | 1 | 0.6 | |
| Habakkuk | 1 | 1.5 |
Also in 1 more book.
Chapters where it is used most
Job 39 (3), Judges 16 (2), 2 Samuel 6 (2), Job 41 (2), Proverbs 8 (2), 1 Samuel 18 (1), 2 Samuel 2 (1), 1 Chronicles 13 (1), 1 Chronicles 15 (1), 2 Chronicles 30 (1)
Forms
- משׂחקים 6
- ישׂחק 5
- תשׂחק 3
- וישׂחק 2
- אשׂחק 2
- שׂחקו 2
- ישׂחקו 2
- משׂחקת 2
- בשׂחוק 1
- המשׂחקות 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with sachaq more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- לָעַג laag “to mock” 4
- תֹּף toph “tambourine” 3
- דָּוִד david “David” 5
- רָקַד raqad “to skip about” 2
- שַׁעֲשֻׁעִים shashua “delight” 2
- רָאָה raah “to see” 5
- מִיכַל mikhal “Michal” 2
- מָלֵא male “to fill” 3
- עֵת et “time” 3
- שִׁמְשׁוֹן shimshon “Samson” 2
- נֵבֶל nevel “harp” 2
- כִּנּוֹר kinnor “lyre” 2
Key verses
The verses using sachaq that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Judges 16:25 — And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison…
- 1 Chronicles 13:8 — And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals,…
- 1 Chronicles 15:29 — And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David…
- 2 Chronicles 30:10 — So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
- Job 30:1 — But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
- 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.
- 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 of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
- Jeremiah 30:19 — And out of 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 — Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them…
- Lamentations 1:7 — Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the…
See all 36 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.