19 occurrences

'Sport' in the Bible

You will make sport of destruction and need, and will have no fear of the beasts of the earth.

If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.

Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?

It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!

My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,

Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.

He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

Let me say what is in my mind, and after that, go on making sport of me.

The upright saw it and were glad: and those who had done no wrong made sport of them,

But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.

For fear of the great body of people, or for fear that families might make sport of me, so that I kept quiet, and did not go out of my door;

What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,

For in addition to his sin, he is uncontrolled in heart; before our eyes he makes sport of God, increasing his words against him.

He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;

When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.

He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear.

Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women?

A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
ענג 
`anag 
Usage: 10

צחק 
Tsachaq 
Usage: 13

שׂחק שׂחוק 
S@chowq 
Usage: 15

שׂחק 
Sachaq 
Usage: 36

ἐντρυφάω 
Entruphao 
Usage: 1

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