- Original: שׂחק - Transliteration: Sachaq - Phonetic: saw-khak' - Definition: 1. to laugh, play, mock a. (Qal) 1. to laugh (usually in contempt or derision) 2. to sport, play b. (Piel) 1. to make sport 2. to jest 3. to play (including instrumental music, singing, dancing) c. (Hiphil) to laugh mockingly - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 1905c - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; to laugh (in pleasure or detraction); by implication to play: - deride have in derision laugh make merry mock (-er) play rejoice (laugh to) scorn be in (make) sport. Total KJV Occurrences: 36 • deride, 1 Habakkuk 1:10 • derision, 1 Job 30:1 • laugh, 8 Job 5:22; Psalm 2:4; Psalm 37:13; Psalm 52:6; Psalm 59:8; Proverbs 1:26; Proverbs 29:9; Ecclesiastes 3:4 • laughed, 1 Job 29:24 • laugheth, 1 Job 41:29 • merry, 2 Jeremiah 30:19; Jeremiah 31:4 • mock, 1 Lamentations 1:7 • mockers, 1 Jeremiah 15:17 • mocketh, 1 Job 39:22 • play, 5 2 Samuel 2:14; 2 Samuel 6:21; Job 40:20; Job 41:5; Psalm 104:26 • played, 3 1 Samuel 18:7; 2 Samuel 6:5; 1 Chronicles 13:8 • playing, 2 1 Chronicles 15:29; Zechariah 8:5 • rejoice, 1 Proverbs 31:25 • rejoicing, 2 Proverbs 8:30; Proverbs 8:31 • scorn, 1 2 Chronicles 30:10 • scorneth, 2 Job 39:7; Job 39:18 • sport, 3 Judges 16:25; Judges 16:27; Proverbs 26:19