שָׂחַק sâchaq — to laugh (in pleasure or detraction)
Translated in the KJV as deride, have in derision, laugh, make merry, mock, play, rejoice, scorn, be in sport.
a primitive root; to laugh (in pleasure or detraction); by implication, to play.
sâchaq in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 12Infinitive construct 2Perfect (qatal) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Wayyiqtol 1
Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.
At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
Pi'el
Participle (active) 11Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Infinitive construct 1
And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.
And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.
Hiph'il
Participle (active) 1
So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›