Genesis 18:13
And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?
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Laugh
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Luke 6:25
Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
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שָׂחַק
sâchaq · saw-khak'
8 times translated as this KJV form36 total Strong's occurrences
to laugh (in pleasure or detraction); by implication, to play
Strong's KJV usage: deride, have in derision, laugh, make merry, mock(-er), play, rejoice, (laugh to) scorn, be in (make) sport.
Strong's first: Job 5:22Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 3:4
Open full H7832 profile →צָחַק
tsâchaq · tsaw-khak'
3 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
to laugh outright (in merriment or scorn); by implication, to sport
Strong's KJV usage: laugh, mock, play, make sport.
Strong's first: Genesis 18:13Strong's last: Genesis 21:6
Open full H6711 profile →γελάω
geláō · ghel-ah'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to laugh (as a sign of joy or satisfaction)
Strong's KJV usage: :--laugh.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 6:21Strong's last: Luke 6:25
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lâʻag · law-ag'
2 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
to deride; by implication (as if imitating a foreigner) to speak unintelligibly
Strong's KJV usage: have in derision, laugh (to scorn), mock (on), stammering.
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Strong's first: Job 9:23Strong's last: Psalms 80:6
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tsᵉchôq · tsekh-oke'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
laughter (in pleasure or derision)
Strong's KJV usage: laugh(-ed to scorn).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 21:6Strong's last: Genesis 21:6
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laugh
LAUGH, verb intransitive l'aff. [Heb.]
1. To make the noise and exhibit the features which are characteristic of mirth in the human species. Violent laughter is accompanied with a shaking of the sides, and all laughter expels breath from the lungs.
2. In poetry, to be gay; to appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, lively or brilliant.
Then laughs the childish year with flow'rets crown'd.
And o'er the foaming bowl, the laughing wine.
To laugh at, to ridicule; to treat with some degree of contempt.
No fool to laugh at, which he valued more.
To laugh to scorn, to deride; to treat with mockery, contempt and scorn. Nehemiah 2:19.
LAUGH, noun l'aff. An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species.
But feigns a laugh to see me search around, and by that laugh the willing fair is found.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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