Strong's Concordance H7832

Original Word: שָׂחַק
Transliteration: sâchaq
Phonetic Spelling: 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.

Usages throughout the bible

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. H7832 And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.

Judges 16:27 - Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport. H7832

1 Samuel 18:7 - And the women answered one another as they played, H7832 and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.

2 Samuel 2:14 - And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play H7832 before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.

2 Samuel 6:5 - And David and all the house of Israel played H7832 before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.

2 Samuel 6:21 - And David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play H7832 before the LORD.

1 Chronicles 13:8 - And David and all Israel played H7832 before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

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 dancing and playing: H7832 and she despised him in her heart.

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, H7832 and mocked them.

Job 5:22 - At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: H7832 neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

Job 29:24 - If I laughed H7832 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, H7832 whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

Job 39:7 - He scorneth H7832 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 H7832 the horse and his rider.

Job 39:22 - He mocketh H7832 at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.

Job 40:20 - Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. H7832

Job 41:5 - Wilt thou play H7832 with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

Job 41:29 - Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth H7832 at the shaking of a spear.

Psalms 2:4 - He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: H7832 the Lord shall have them in derision.

Psalms 37:13 - The Lord shall laugh H7832 at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.

Psalms 52:6 - The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh H7832 at him:

Psalms 59:8 - But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh H7832 at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.

Psalms 104:26 - There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play H7832 therein.

Proverbs 1:26 - I also will laugh H7832 at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

Proverbs 8:30 - Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing H7832 always before him;

Proverbs 8:31 - Rejoicing H7832 in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.

Proverbs 26:19 - So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport? H7832

Proverbs 29:9 - If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, H7832 there is no rest.

Proverbs 31:25 - Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice H7832 in time to come.

Ecclesiastes 3:4 - A time to weep, and a time to laugh; H7832 a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Jeremiah 15:17 - I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, H7832 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: H7832 and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

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 that make merry. H7832

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 hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock H7832 at her sabbaths.

Habakkuk 1:10 - And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride H7832 every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.

Zechariah 8:5 - And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing H7832 in the streets thereof.