Where it appears

• Judg 16:25When their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars;
• Judg 16:27Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed.
• 1 Sam 18:7The women sang to one another as they played, and said, “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.”
• 2 Sam 2:14Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and play before us!” Joab said, “Let them arise!”
• 2 Sam 6:5David and all the house of Israel played before Yahweh with all kinds of instruments made of cypress wood, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with castanets, and with cymbals.
• 2 Sam 6:21David said to Michal, “It was before Yahweh, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel. Therefore I will celebrate before Yahweh.
• 1 Chr 13:8David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with cymbals, and with trumpets.
• 1 Chr 15:29As the ark of Yahweh’s covenant came to David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing; and she despised him in her heart.
• 2 Chr 30:10So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.
• Job 5:22At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.
• Job 29:24I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.
• Job 30:1“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
• Job 39:7He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.
• Job 39:18When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.
• Job 39:22He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed, neither does he turn back from the sword.
• Job 40:20Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play.
• Job 41:5Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?
• Job 41:29Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.
• Ps 2:4He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.
• Ps 37:13The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.
• Ps 52:6The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,
• Ps 59:8But you, Yahweh, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations.
• Ps 104:26There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.
• Prov 1:26I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;
• Prov 8:30then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him,
• Prov 8:31Rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.
• Prov 26:19is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “Am I not joking?”
• Prov 29:9If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.
• Prov 31:25Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.
• Eccl 3:4a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
• Jer 15:17I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand; for you have filled me with indignation.
• Jer 30:19Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry. I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they will not be small.
• Jer 31:4I will build you again, and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. You will again be adorned with your tambourines, and will go out in the dances of those who make merry.
• Lam 1:7Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her, The adversaries saw her, they mocked at her desolations.
• Hab 1:10Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.
• Zech 8:5The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”