Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7814
שְׂחוֹק
sechoqsekh-oke'
laughter
15 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sᵉchôwq
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7814is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7814
laughter (in merriment or defiance)
The King James renders it: derision, laughter(-ed to scorn, -ing), mocked, sport.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
sechoq is rendered "laughter". It stands 15 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Four of the uses stand in Ecclesiastes, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 8:21He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with a shout of joy.
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with a shout of joy.
Job 8:21שְׂח֣וֹק
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's fifteen uses are in Ecclesiastes.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a laughingstock3
- into a laughing stock3
- laughter2
- for laughter1
- in laughter1
- laughter of1
- like sport1
- more than laughter1
- of laughter1
- the laughing stock1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 15, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- לִשְׂחוֹק֙2
- בִּשְׂח֥וֹק1
- הַשְּׂחֹ֗ק1
- כִּשְׂח֣וֹק1
- לִשְׂח֖וֹק1
- לִשְׂחֹ֖ק1
- לִשְׂחֹ֥ק1
- מִשְּׂחֹ֑ק1
- שְׂח֡וֹק1
- שְׂח֣וֹק1
- שְׂ֝ח֗וֹק1
- שְׂחֹ֤ק1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · masculine singular8HR/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular5HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Job
three uses
He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with a shout of joy.
- שְׂח֣וֹקsechoknoun · masculine singulartagged: laughter
I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
- שְׂחֹ֤קsechoknoun · masculine singulartagged: a laughingstock
- שְׂ֝ח֗וֹקsechoknoun · masculine singulartagged: a laughingstock
Psalms
one use
Then our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”
- שְׂח֡וֹקsechoknoun · masculine singulartagged: laughter
Proverbs
two uses
The fool delights in shameful conduct, but a man of understanding has wisdom.
- כִּשְׂח֣וֹקkischokpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like sport
Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow.
- בִּשְׂח֥וֹקbischokpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in laughter
Ecclesiastes
four uses
I said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”
- לִשְׂח֖וֹקlischokpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: of laughter
Sorrow is better than laughter, for a sad countenance is good for the heart.
- מִשְּׂחֹ֑קmisechokpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: more than laughter
For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.
- שְׂחֹ֣קsechoknoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: laughter of
A feast is prepared for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.
- לִשְׂחוֹק֙lischokpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: for laughter
Jeremiah
four uses
You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.
- לִשְׂחוֹק֙lischokpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into a laughing stock
“Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock.
- לִשְׂחֹ֖קlischokpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into a laughing stock
Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.
- הַשְּׂחֹ֗קhasechokthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the laughing stock
“How shattered it is! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! Moab has become an object of ridicule and horror to all those around him.”
- לִשְׂחֹ֥קlischokpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into a laughing stock
Lamentations
one use
I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
- שְּׂחֹק֙sechoknoun · masculine singulartagged: a laughingstock
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.