Laugh
Holman Bible Dictionary [1]
Genesis 17:17 Genesis 18:12 Genesis 21:3 21:6 Genesis 38:23 2 Chronicles 30:10 Job 22:19 Job 5:22 Job 39:18 39:22 Psalm 2:4 Psalm 37:13 Psalm 59:8 Job 8:21 Psalm 126:2 Luke 6:21 6:25 Ecclesiastes 3:4 Proverbs 29:9 Ecclesiastes 7:4 7:6 Ecclesiastes 2:2 Ecclesiastes 7:3
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( v. i.) Fig.: To be or appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
(2): ( v. t.) To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
(3): ( v. t.) To express by, or utter with, laughter; - with out.
(4): ( v. i.) To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing 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.
(5): ( n.) An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. See Laugh, v. i.
King James Dictionary [3]
LAUGH, Heb.
1. To make the noise and exhibit the features which are characteristic of mirth in the human species. Violent laughter is accompanied with a shaking of the sides, and all laughter expels breath from the lungs. 2. In poetry, to be gay to appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, lively or brilliant.
Then laughs the childish year with flow'rets crown'd.
And o'er the foaming bowl, the laughing wine.
To laugh at, to ridicule to treat with some degree of contempt.
No fool to laugh at, which he valued more.
To laugh to scorn, to deride to treat with mockery, contempt and scorn. Nehemiah 2 .
LAUGH, n. An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species.
But feigns a laugh, to see me search around, and by that laugh the willing fair is found.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [4]
Psalm 2:4 (a) By this is indicated GOD's complete supremacy as He looks with scorn on the feeble efforts of man to reject His Son from being ruler of this world. (See also Psalm 37:13).
Proverbs 1:26 (a) By this is described the terrible condition of one who invites GOD's rejection, repudiation and wrath in the day when he needs the Lord the most. There is no mercy after death.
