שְׂחֹק
se.choq (H7814)
laughter
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# Śĕchōq: Laughter in Biblical Hebrew The Hebrew word śĕchōq denotes laughter and appears fifteen times throughout the biblical text. As a noun, it represents the physical and emotional expression of amusement or derision. The word's presence across these fifteen occurrences suggests it held enough significance in ancient Israelite communication to warrant repeated use across different literary contexts and time periods. While the lexical data provided establishes śĕchōq's basic semantic field as "laughter," the relatively modest frequency of occurrence (15 times) indicates that biblical writers had other means of expressing humor and amusement. The word functions as a straightforward descriptor of human emotional expression, capturing a phenomenon that transcends cultural and temporal boundaries. Without additional context from the specific biblical passages where śĕchōq appears, we can note only that the term itself carries no inherent moral evaluation—it is simply the Hebrew vocabulary item for this universal human experience.
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I 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.
Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for them.”
It is a fool’s pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding’s pleasure.
Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.
I said of laughter, “It is foolishness;” and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”
Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.
A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.
Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.
“Make him drunken; for he magnified himself against Yahweh. Moab will wallow in his vomit, and he also will be in derision.
For wasn’t Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.
“How it is broken down! How they wail! How Moab has turned the back with shame! So will Moab become a derision and a terror to all who are around him.”
I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.