Exodus 32:6
And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
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1 Corinthians 10:7
Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
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3 occurrences in 3 verses.
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שָׂחַק
sâchaq · saw-khak'
5 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: 2 Samuel 2:14Strong's last: Psalms 104:26
Open full H7832 profile →נָגַן
nâgan · naw-gan'
3 times translated as this KJV form15 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to thrum, i.e. beat a tune with the fingers; expectation. to play on a stringed instrument; hence (generally), to make music
Strong's KJV usage: player on instruments, sing to the stringed instruments, melody, ministrel, play(-er, -ing).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 16:16Strong's last: Psalms 33:3
Open full H5059 profile →παίζω
paízō · paheed'-zo
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to sport (as a boy)
Strong's KJV usage: :--play.
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 10:7Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 10:7
Open full G3815 profile →צָחַק
tsâchaq · tsaw-khak'
1 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: Exodus 32:6Strong's last: Exodus 32:6
Open full H6711 profile →שָׁעַע
shâʻaʻ · shaw-ah'
1 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
(in a good acceptation) to look upon (with complacency), i.e. fondle, please or amuse (self); (in a bad one) to look about (in dismay), i.e. stare
Strong's KJV usage: cry (out) (by confusion with 7768), dandle, delight (self), play, shut.
Strong's first: Isaiah 11:8Strong's last: Isaiah 11:8
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H5059
Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
H7832
There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
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play
PLAY, verb intransitive
1. To use any exercise for pleasure or recreation; to do something not as a task or for profit, but for amusement; as, to play at cricket.
The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play Exodus 32:6.
2. To sport; to frolick; to frisk.
The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to day,
Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?
3. To toy; to act with levity.
4. To trifle; to act wantonly and thoughtlessly.
Men are apt to play with their healths and their lives as they do with their clothes.
5. To do something fanciful; to give a fanciful turn to; as, to play upon words.
6. To make sport, or practice sarcastic merriment.
I would make use of it rather to play upon those I despise, than trifle with those I love.
7. To mock; to practice illusion.
Art thou alive,
Or is it fancy plays upon our eyesight?
8. To contend in a game; as, to play at cards or dice; to play for diversion; to play for money.
9. To practice a trick or deception.
His mother played false with a smith.
10. To perform on an instrument of music; as, to play on a flute, a violin or a harpsichord.
PLAY, my friend, and charm the charmer.
11. To move, or to move with alternate dilatation and contraction.
The heart beats, the blood circulates, the lungs play
12. To operate; to act. The engines play against a fire.
13. To move irregularly; to wanton.
Ev'n as the waving sedges play with wind.
The setting sun
PLAYs on their shining arms and burnish'd helmets.
All fame is foreign, but of true desert,
PLAYs round the head, but comes not to the heart.
14. To act a part on the stage; to personate a character.
A lord will hear you play to-night.
15. To represent a standing character.
Courts are theaters where some men play
16. To act in any particular character; as, to play the fool; to play the woman; to play the man.
17. To move in any manner; to move one way and another; as any part of a machine.
PLAY, verb transitive To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon or a fire-engine.
1. To use an instrument of music; as, to play the flute or the organ.
2. To act a sportive part or character.
Nature here
Wanton'd as in her prime, and play'd at will
Her virgin fancies.
3. To act or perform by representing a character; as, to play a comedy; to play the part of king Lear.
4. To act; to perform; as, to play our parts well on the stage of life.
5. To perform in contest for amusement or for a prize; as, to play a game at whist.
To play off, to display; to show; to put in exercise; as, to play off tricks.
To play on or upon, to deceive; to mock or to trifle with.
1. To give a fanciful turn to.
PLAY, noun Any exercise or series of actions intended for pleasure, amusement or diversion, as at cricket or quoit, or at blind man's buff.
1. Amusement; sport; frolic; gambols.
Two gentle fawns at play
2. Game; gaming; practice of contending for victory, for amusement or for a prize, as at dice, cards or billiards.
3. Practice in any contest; as sword-play.
He was resolved not to speak distinctly, knowing his best play to be in the dark.
John naturally loved rough play
4. Action; use; employment; office.
--But justifies the next who comes in play
5. Practice; action; manner of acting in contest or negotiation; as fair play; foul play
6. A dramatic composition; a comedy or tragedy; a composition in which characters are represented by dialogue and action.
A play ought to be a just image of human nature.
7. Representation or exhibition of a comedy or tragedy; as, to be at the play He attends every play
8. Performance on an instrument of music.
9. Motion; movement, regular or irregular; as the play of a wheel or piston.
10. State of agitation or discussion.
Many have been sav'd, and many may,
Who never heard this question brought in play
11. Room for motion.
The joints are let exactly into one another, that they have no play between them.
12. Liberty of acting; room for enlargement or display; scope; as, to give full play to mirth. Let the genius have free play
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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