# H6711 צָחַק

צָחַק (tsâchaq), Strong’s H6711: to laugh outright (in merriment or scorn); by implication, to sport KJV: laugh, mock, play, make sport.. Occurs 13 times.

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*tsâchaq* — to laugh outright (in merriment or scorn); by implication, to sport

KJV: laugh, mock, play, make sport.

Occurs 13 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [צָחַק] vb. laugh
- Qal laugh
- Pi.
- 1 jest
- 2 sport, play

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 17:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=17) — Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred…
- [Genesis 18:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=12) — Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
- [Genesis 18:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=13) — The LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’
- [Genesis 18:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=15) — Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.”
- [Genesis 19:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=14) — Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this…
- [Genesis 21:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=6) — Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”
- [Genesis 21:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=9) — Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
- [Genesis 26:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=8) — When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold…
- [Genesis 39:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/39?v=14) — she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought a Hebrew in to us to mock us. He…
- [Genesis 39:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/39?v=17) — She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to…