Limitless Word
שְׂחוֹקsᵉchôwq/sekh-oke'/
HebrewH781415 occurrences (KJV)

laughter (in merriment or defiance)

KJV renders it: derision, laughter(-ed to scorn, -ing), mocked, sport.

Where it appears(showing the first 14 of 15)

  • Job 8:21He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
  • Job 12:4I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
  • Ps 126:2Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for them.”
  • Prov 10:23It is a fool’s pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding’s pleasure.
  • Prov 14:13Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.
  • Eccl 2:2I said of laughter, “It is foolishness”; and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”
  • Eccl 7:3Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.
  • Eccl 7:6For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.
  • Eccl 10:19A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.
  • Jer 20:7Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughing-stock all day. Every one mocks me.
  • Jer 48:26“Make him drunken; for he magnified himself against Yahweh: and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
  • Jer 48:27For wasn’t Israel a derision to you? was he found among thieves? for as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.
  • Jer 48:39“How it is broken down! How they wail! How Moab has turned the back with shame! So shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all who are around him.”
  • Lam 3:14I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.