Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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n.) An object of ridicule; a butt of sport.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
LAUGHING-STOCKlaf'-ing-stok: Something set up to be laughed at; thrice in the Revised Version (British and American) the translation of sechoq, "laughter," etc. (Job 12:4 twice; Jeremiah 20:7; compare Jeremiah 48:26, 27, 39 Lamentations 3:14).
See MOCK, MOCKING.
Strong's Hebrew
4493. manod -- a shaking, wagging... 4492, 4493. manod. 4494 . a shaking, wagging. Transliteration: manod Phonetic
Spelling: (maw-node') Short Definition:
laughingstock.
... /hebrew/4493.htm - 6k 7814. sechoq -- laughter, derision, sport
... Word Origin from sachaq Definition laughter, derision, sport NASB Word Usage enjoyment
(1), joke (2), laughingstock (5), laughter (6), sport (1). ...
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7218. rosh -- head
... 1), divisions (1), ends (2), every (1), faced* (1), favor* (1), finest (2), first
(12), full (2), hair (3), head (256), heads (129), laughingstock* (1), leader ...
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937. buz -- contempt
... Word Origin from buz Definition contempt NASB Word Usage contempt (9), despised
(1), laughingstock (1). contempt, despised, shamed. ...
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Library
Wisdom Brevities
... appetites. If thou give fully to thy soul the delight of her desire, she
will make thee the laughingstock of thine enemies. Make ...
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Psalm 79
... 4Unto our neighbours a reproach. most base become are we; A scorn and laughingstock
to them. that round about us be. ^5How long, Lord, shall thine anger last? ...
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Having used these means to procure them
... are backward to the exercise, will have pretences to forbear and forsake it, and
to say, They will not come to be made a scorn and a laughingstock.' You must ...
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The Portrait of a Drunkyard
... to describe the excited imagination of the drunkard, whose senses are no longer
under his control, but play him tricks that make him a laughingstock to sober ...
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Divine Destruction and Protection
... tongues, and confounded their language, and scattered the imaginations of their
hearts: so he laughed them to scorn, and left them to be a laughingstock to all ...
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David's Weakness
... and the ugliest of mortals, to be the most diseased and abject of cripples, the
most silly, nervous incapable personage who ever was a laughingstock for the ...
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Matt. xvii. 10
... him, Wine was given, that we might be cheerful, not that we might behave ourselves
unseemly; that we might laugh, not that we might be a laughingstock; that we ...
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Hebrews xi. 7
... "We are undone, we are utterly consumed" ( Numbers 17:12 ), we are become the
laughingstock of our enemies, and a mockery for the heathen and the Demons. ...
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Salvation of the Lord
... And this thing I hope I can say from my heart: if to be made as the mire of the
streets again, if to be the laughingstock of fools and the song of the drunkard ...
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Thesaurus
Laughingstock (10 Occurrences)... See MOCK, MOCKING. Multi-Version Concordance
Laughingstock (10 Occurrences).
Genesis 38:23 Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed.
.../l/laughingstock.htm - 9kLaughing (38 Occurrences)
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Jest (1 Occurrence)
... 4. (n.) The object of laughter or sport; a laughingstock. 5. (vi) To take part
in a merrymaking; -- especially, to act in a mask or interlude. ...
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Laughing-stock (3 Occurrences)
Laughing-stock. Laughingstock, Laughing-stock. Laughs . Int. Standard Bible
Encyclopedia ... (DBY). Laughingstock, Laughing-stock. Laughs . Reference Bible
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Ridicule (14 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
3. (n.) Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness. ...
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Song (207 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) Poetical composition; poetry; verse. 5. (n.) An object of derision; a
laughingstock. 6. (n.) A trifle. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. MOSES, SONG OF. ...
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