Word

צָחַק

tsâchaq · H6711 · Hebrew · 13 occurrences

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Meanings

to laugh

Action by which humans make the sounds and movements that express either amusement or derision

Examples
Genesis 17:17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to a man a hundred years old? And will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth to a child?”
Genesis 18:12 So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I have become old, am I to have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
Genesis 18:13 But the LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I actually give birth to a child, when I am so old?’
to bring laughter

Action by which deities bring about the circumstances that cause humans to make the sounds and movements that express joy

Examples
Genesis 21:6 Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me.”
to joke / to jest / to entertain / to to amuse oneself / to make fun of

Causative action by which humans act in a certain way with the purpose of bringing enjoyment to oneself and/or other humans, possibly at the expense of oneself or other humans

Examples
Genesis 19:14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, “Up, get out of this place, for the LORD is destroying the city.” But he appeared to his sons-in-law to be joking.
Genesis 21:9 Now Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking Isaac.
Genesis 26:8 Now it came about, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down through a window, and saw them, and behold, Isaac was caressing his wife Rebekah.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

12 occurrences in 8 groups

Not stated (infinitive) 3
שָׂרָהprincess 2
Not stated: he, she or it 2
בֵּןson 1
יִצְחָקIsaac 1
שָׁמַעto hear, to listen, to obey 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

7 occurrences in 7 groups

לto/for+ אָמַרto say 2
אֵתwith+ רִבְקָהRebecca 1
בin/on/with+ קֶרֶבmidst, among, inner parts 1
בin/on/with+ נִיme 1
בin/on/with+ נוּus 1
לto/for+ פָּנִיםface, presence, before 1

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לֹאnot 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

רָאָהto see 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 2 groups

לto/for 3
כlike/as 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 2 words

שָׂחַק sâchaq · H7832 · to laugh, to smile, to make merry: Both words denote overlapping senses of laughing, mocking, playing, and sporting, in substitutable contexts.
שָׁעַע shâʻaʻ · H8173 · to be blinded, to blind oneself: The target lexeme (‘to laugh, mock, play, make sport’) and שָׁעַע (‘to delight oneself, play’) overlap in the sense of playful activity, functioning as near-synonyms in contexts of play or rejoicing.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Rejoice002001002022: צָחַק most often means to laugh, as of Abraham laughing at the promise of a son in his old age in Genesis 17:17, and Sarah laughing to herself at the same promise in Genesis 18:12, 18:13, and 18:15.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

צָחַקtsâchaq · H6711צְחֹק tsᵉchôq · H6712 · laughter · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6711. tsachaq [צָחַק] verb laugh (Arabic , laugh, Syriac , compare BaEs 34; see also…

H6711. tsachaq
[צָחַק] verb laugh (Arabic , laugh, Syriac , compare BaEs 34; see also שׂחק); —
Qal Perfect3feminine singular צָֽחֲקָה Gen 18:13, etc.; Imperfect3masculine singular יִצֲחַקֿ Gen 21:6, וַיִּצְחָ֑ק Gen 17:17; Gen 17:3feminine singular וַתִּצְחַק Gen 18:12; — laugh, Gen 18:12-13, Gen 18:15 (twice in verse) (J), Gen 17:17 (P); with ל at, concerning, Gen 21:6.
Pi`el Imperfect וַיְצַחֵק Jdg 16:25; Infinitive construct לְצַחֵק Exo 32:6, (בִּיׅ בָּנוּ לְצַ֫חֶק Gen 39:14, Gen 39:17; Participle מְצַחֵק Gen 19:14; Gen 26:8, מְצַחֶ֑ק Gen 21:9; —
1 jest Gen 19:14 (J).
2 sport, play Gen 21:9 (E) Exo 32:6 (J); make sport for Jdg 16:25 (לִפְנֵי; || וִישַׂחֶקלָֿ֑נוּ); toy with (אֶת), of conjugal caresses Gen 26:8 (compare DoughtyArab. Des. i. 231), make a toy of, with ב, Gen 39:14, Gen 39:17 (all J).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Rejoice13 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0