tsachak · laugh

What it means

tsachak (צָחַק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “laugh”.

Play, amuse oneself, also mock. The name "Isaac" comes from this verb.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To laugh, like Sarah at the promise.
2. To jest, play, fondle.
3. To mock someone.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• laugh ×5
• laughed ×2
• mock ×2
• be joking ×1
• laughing ×1
• revel ×1
• was caressing ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×11
• Exodus×1
• Judges×1

• Genesis 17:17

  Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a son be born to one who is a hundred years old? And Sarah, will she, at ninety years, give birth?”

• Genesis 18:12

  So Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I am worn out, will I have pleasure, and my lord is old?”

• Genesis 18:13

  YHWH said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh like this, saying, ‘Will I really give birth, when I am old?’

• Genesis 18:15

  But Sarah denied it, saying, “I did not laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.”

• Genesis 19:14

  So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up, get out of this place, for YHWH is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to be joking in the eyes of his sons-in-law.

• Genesis 21:6

  Sarah said, “Elohim has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

• Genesis 21:9

  But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing.

• Genesis 26:8

  When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down through the window and saw, and look, Isaac was caressing Rebekah his wife.

• Genesis 39:14

  she called to the men of her household and spoke to them, saying, “See, he has brought us a Hebrew man to mock us. He came to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice.

• Genesis 39:17

  Then she spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew slave, whom you brought to us, came to me to mock me.

• Exodus 32:6

  And they rose early on the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.

• Judges 16:25

  And it happened, when their heart was merry, that they said, “Call Samson, that he may entertain us.” So they called Samson from the house of the prisoners, and he made them laugh in their presence; and they stood him between the pillars.

And 1 more times.