Midvash

שְׂחוֹקsᵉchôwq

laughter, derision, sport

Pronunciation: sekh-oke' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7814

Meanings

1. laughter, (joyous) (Job 8:21; Psalms 126:2; Ecclesiastes 2:2)

2. derision, (object of) (Jeremiah 20:7; Jeremiah 48:26; Jeremiah 48:27)

3. sport (Proverbs 10:23)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 15 times in the Bible.

  • Job 8:21 He will once again fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.
  • Job 12:4 Yet my friends laugh at me, for I call on God and expect an answer. I am a just and blameless man, yet they laugh at me.
  • Psalms 126:2 We were filled with laughter, and we sang for joy. And the other nations said, “What amazing things the Lord has done for them.”
  • Proverbs 10:23 Doing wrong is fun for a fool, but living wisely brings pleasure to the sensible.
  • Proverbs 14:13 Laughter can conceal a heavy heart, but when the laughter ends, the grief remains.
  • Ecclesiastes 2:2 So I said, “Laughter is silly. What good does it do to seek pleasure?”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).