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# צְחֹק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6712

**laughter** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

laughter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6712/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צְחֹק: laughter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6712/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] laughter;—צְחֹק עָשָׂה לִי א׳ Gn 21:6 (E) laughter hath God caused for me; =laughing-stock, תִּהְיֶה לְצ׳ וּלְלַעַג Ez 23:32 (del. 𝔊B Hi Co Berthol Siegf Krae; not Toy).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: laughter (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 21:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.6/#tree)

וַתֹּ֣אמֶר שָׂרָ֔ה צְחֹ֕ק עָ֥שָׂה לִ֖י אֱלֹהִ֑ים כָּל־הַשֹּׁמֵ֖עַ יִֽצְחַק־לִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and she.said Sarah laughter he.has.made for me God every (the).\[one who\].hears he.will.laugh to me

*JPS 1917:* And Sarah said: 'God hath made laughter for me; every one that heareth will laugh on account of me.'

[Ezekiel 23:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.32/#tree)

כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהֹוִ֔ה כּ֤וֹס אֲחוֹתֵךְ֙ תִּשְׁתִּ֔י הָעֲמֻקָּ֖ה וְהָרְחָבָ֑ה תִּהְיֶ֥ה לִצְחֹ֛ק וּלְלַ֖עַג מִרְבָּ֥ה לְהָכִֽיל׃

*Word for word:* thus he.says Lord \[the\] Yahweh the.cup your.sister your you.will.drink (the) deep and (the) wide it.will.become (into) laughter and (into) mockery much to contain

*JPS 1917:* Thus saith the Lord GOD: Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup, which is deep and large; thou shalt be for a scorn and a derision; it is full to the uttermost.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6712.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6712/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).