Genesis 17:17
Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
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Luke 8:53
And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
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καταγελάω
katageláō · kat-ag-el-ah'-o
3 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to laugh down, i.e. deride
Strong's KJV usage: :--laugh to scorn.
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Strong's first: Matthew 9:24Strong's last: Luke 8:53
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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 17:17Strong's last: Genesis 18:15
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sâchaq · saw-khak'
1 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 29:24Strong's last: Job 29:24
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This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
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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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