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# שְׂחֹוק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7814

**laughter** — used 15 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/1513/7814/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׂחֹק: laughter, derision, sport [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7814/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] laughter, derision, sport (proposes inf. cstr.);—abs. שְׂחֹק Je 48:26 + 5 times; cstr. Ec 7:6; abs. שְׂחוֹק Je 20:7 + 7 times;— laughter (joyous) Jb 8:21 (‖ תְּרוּעָה), ψ 126:2 (‖ רִנָּה), Ec 2:2 (‖ שִׂמְחָה), 10:19 (‖ שִׂמֵּחַ); as hollow Pr 14:13 (opp. כָּאַב), Ec 7:3 (opp. כַּעַס), cf. שׂ׳ הַכְּסִיל v 6. (object of) derision, הָיָה לִשׂ׳, Je 20:7; 48:26, 27 (read לִשׂ׳ for MT הַשּׂ׳ 𝔊 𝔖 𝔙 Gie Du; Co del. vv), v 39 La 3:14; elsewhere Jb 12:4(×2). sport Pr 10:23.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: laughter (6); laughing-stock (4); a laughing-stock (2).

## In the verses

[Job 8:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.21/#tree)

עַד־יְמַלֵּ֣ה שְׂח֣וֹק פִּ֑יךָ וּשְׂפָתֶ֥יךָ תְרוּעָֽה׃

*Word for word:* until he.will.fill laughter mouth your and lips your a.shout.of.joy

*JPS 1917:* Till He fill thy mouth with laughter, and thy lips with shouting.

[Proverbs 14:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.13/#tree)

גַּם־בִּשְׂח֥וֹק יִכְאַב־לֵ֑ב וְאַחֲרִיתָ֖הּשִׂמְחָ֣ה תוּגָֽה׃

*Word for word:* also in laughter it.is.in.pain a.heart and end its joy \[may.be\].grief

*JPS 1917:* Even in laughter the heart acheth; and the end of mirth is heaviness.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7814.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7814/): 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).