Bible Concordance
Laughter (14 Occurrences)James 4:9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Genesis 21:6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh. Every one that heareth will laugh with me. (See JPS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Job 8:21 He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting. (WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Job 12:4 A laughter to his friend I am: 'He calleth to God, and He answereth him,' A laughter 'is' the perfect righteous one. (YLT)
Psalms 126:2 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." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 14:13 Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 2:2 I said of laughter, "It is foolishness;" and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 7:3 Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 7:6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 10:19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 20:7 Thou hast persuaded me, O Jehovah, and I am persuaded; Thou hast hardened me, and dost prevail, I have been for a laughter all the day, Every one is mocking at me, (YLT)
Jeremiah 51:39 When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says Yahweh. (See NIV)
Ezekiel 23:32 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: The cup of thy sister thou dost drink, The deep and the wide one, (Thou art for laughter and for scorn,) Abundant to contain. (YLT)
Habakkuk 1:10 And at kings it doth scoff, And princes 'are' a laughter to it, At every fenced place it doth laugh, And it heapeth up dust, and captureth it. (YLT)
Thesaurus
Laughter (14 Occurrences)... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia.
LAUGHTER. laf'-ter (chaq, tsachaq, "to
laugh," sechoq, "
laughter"; gelao, katagelao): (1)
Laughter.../l/laughter.htm - 13kLaugh (23 Occurrences)
... a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of
explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter. ...
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Ridicule (14 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Remarks designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that
species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a ...
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Mirth (18 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Merriment; gayety accompanied with laughter; jollity. ... Proverbs 14:13 Even
in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness. ...
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Merry (38 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (superl.) Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor
and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive. ...
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Laughingstock (10 Occurrences)
... laf'-ing-stok: Something set up to be laughed at; thrice in the Revised Version
(British and American) the translation of sechoq, "laughter," etc. ...
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Ha (8 Occurrences)
... When repeated, ha, ha, it is an expression of laughter, satisfaction, or triumph,
sometimes of derisive laughter; or sometimes it is equivalent to Well, it is ...
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Scorn (65 Occurrences)
... In Habakkuk 1:10 (the King James Version) the word translated "scorn" is micchaq,
"an object of laughter," "laughing-stock." In Psalm 44:13; Psalm 79:4 the ...
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Sadness (16 Occurrences)
... to thy word. (DBY). Proverbs 14:13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful,
and the end of mirth is sadness. (DBY). Ecclesiastes 1 ...
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Isaac (127 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Laughter. (1) Israel, or the kingdom of the ten tribes
(Amos 7:9, 16). (2.) The only son of Abraham by Sarah. ...
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Greek
1071. gelos -- laughter ... gelos. 1072 >>.
laughter. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: gelos
Phonetic Spelling: (ghel'-os) Short Definition:
laughter Definition:
laughter.
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