9 occurrences

'Laughter' in the Bible

And Sarah said, "God has made laughter for me; all who hear will laugh for me."

Yet he will fill your mouth [with] laughter and your lips [with] a shout of joy.

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing. Then they said among the nations, "Yahweh has done great [things] for these [people]."

I said of laughter, "[It is] folly!" and of pleasure, "{What does it accomplish?}"

Sorrow [is] better than laughter, for by sadness of countenance the heart is made good.

Like the sound of thorns under a pot, so also the laughter of fools. This also [is] vanity!

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "You will drink the deep and wide cup of your sister; you will be as laughter and as scorn; {the cup holds so much}!

Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloominess.

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שׂחק שׂחוק 
S@chowq 
Usage: 15

γέλως 
Gelos 
Usage: 1