Laugh

King James Version Chapter 21

And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me

Laugh

Gen 17:17 , Gen 18:12 , Gen 21:6

Gen 17:17

Then Abraham fell upon his face, uand laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

Gen 18:12

Therefore Sarah mlaughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my nlord being old also?

Gen 21:6

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And Sarah said, iGod hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.

Laugh or laughter what is it?

A. To show emotion (joy) with a chuckle or explosive vocal sound.(an audience laughing hysterically)

B. To find amusement or pleasure in something. (Laugh at your own self )

C.to become amused or derisive (expressing contempt or ridicule. “a harsh, derisive laugh )

a very skeptical public laughed at our early efforts.

We all need a good laugh sometime. Laughter is a strong medicine.

Proverbs 17:22;A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: But a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Prov 15:15. All the days of the afflicted are evil: But he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

Prov 15:13. A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: But by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

Laughter has benefits

1. Physiological benefits: a therapeutic ally in healing and valuable form of preventive and complementary medicine.

It provides natural defenses against illness.

2. Mental benefits; laughter diffuses bad stress, enhances problem-solving skills

3 . Improves relationships: laughter makes you more open to new people and helps you build and strengthen relationships.

4 .One study of diabetic patients found that it lowers stress and inflammation and increases good cholesterol. it also suggests that just anticipating a funny event boots immune function while decreasing stress-related hormones.

5 . Laughter makes you a better learner: Research shows that a good laugh while learning new material will help you engage with it more.

6 . Laughter make you attractive: a study confirms that humor and playfulness are highly valued traits in potential romantic partners

7 . Laughter helps you make the world a better place: Why its contagious, at least on the level of the brain.

Laugh

Let’s look at two Hebrew words for laugh

Sahaq ( Gen 17:17 ) and sehoq (Gen 21:6 )

Hebrew Strong’s Number: 6711

Hebrew Word: צָחַק

Transliteration: ṣāḥaq

Phonetic Pronunciation: tsaw-khak’

Root: a primitive root

Cross Reference: TWOT - 1905

Part of Speech: v

Vine’s Words: None

Usage Notes:

English Words used in KJV:

laugh 6

mock 4

sport 2

play 1

[Total Count: 13]

a primitive root; to laugh outright (in merriment or scorn); by implication to sport:- laugh, mock, play, make sport.

Hebrew Strong’s Number: 6712

Hebrew Word: צְחֹק

Transliteration: ṣeḥōq

Phonetic Pronunciation: tsekh-oke’

Root: from <H6711>

Cross Reference: TWOT - 1905a

Part of Speech: n m

Vine’s Words: None

Usage Notes:1

1 James Strong, “‏צְחֹק‎,” Strong’s Talking Greek and Hebrew Dictionary (WORDsearch, 2020).

  from <H6711> (tsachaq); laughter (in pleasure or derision):- laugh (-ed to scorn).

Abram was ninety years old the lord appeared to him and gave him a proposition based on if he would walk with him

Gen 17:1 -11

Genesis 17:1–11 (KJV 1900)

And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

Walk

. šǎd·dǎy Shaddai; almighty

.'-swear by almighty God: all-powerful, omnipotent, supreme, most high, preeminent; invincible, unconquerable. ANTONYMS powerless

2 informal an almighty explosion: very great, huge, enormous, immense, colossal, massive, prodigious, stupendous, tremendous, monumental, mammoth, vast, gigantic, giant, mighty, Herculean, epic, monstrous, titanic, towering, king-sized, king-size; substantial; very loud, deafening, ear-splitting, ear-piercing, booming, thundering, thunderous, roaring, resounding, crashing; informal whopping, thumping, astronomical, astronomic, mega, monster, humongous, jumbo, hulking, bumper; British informal whacking, ginormous. ANTONYMS

2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,

4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

Hebrew Strong’s Number: 128511 James Strong, “‏בְּרִית‎ (1),” Strong’s Talking Greek and Hebrew Dictionary (WORDsearch, 2020).

Covenant 282a בְּרִית‎ (bĕrit) covenant (ASV and RSV); between nations: a treaty, alliance of friendship; between individuals: a pledge or agreement; with obligation between a monarch and subjects: a constitution; between God and man: a covenant accompanied by signs, sacrifices, and a solemn oath that sealed the relationship with promises of blessing for keeping the covenant and curses for breaking it.11 Elmer B. Smick, “282 ברה,” ed. R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke, Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (Chicago: Moody Press, 1999), 128.

5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

9 And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

Gen 17:10,11

10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.

11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.

Circumcision. This one applied to all males who shared the promise. Circumcision was practiced elsewhere in the ancient Near East, but here it achieved a new meaning. It too would remind Abraham and his descendants of the everlasting covenant1

1 Allen P. Ross, “Genesis,” in The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures, ed. J. F. Walvoord and R. B. Zuck, vol. 1 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1985), 58.

Elsewhere Scripture refers to circumcision as a symbol of separation, purity, and loyalty to the covenant. Moses said that God would circumcise the hearts of His people so that they might be devoted to Him (Deut. 30:6). And Paul wrote that “circumcision of the heart” (i.e., being inwardly set apart “by the Spirit”) evidences salvation and fellowship with God (Rom. 2:28–29; cf. Rom. 4:11). One must turn in confidence to God and His promises, laying aside natural strength.1

1 Allen P. Ross, “Genesis,” in The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures, ed. J. F. Walvoord and R. B. Zuck, vol. 1 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1985), 58.

Unbelief is described as having an uncircumcised heart (Jer. 9:26; Ezek. 44:7–9).1

1 Allen P. Ross, “Genesis,” in The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures, ed. J. F. Walvoord and R. B. Zuck, vol. 1 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1985), 58.

Jer 4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Col 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

Deut 10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

Rom 2:25-29,

For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law ': but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?

28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Rom 3:1-31

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3:1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

15 aTheir feet are swift to shed blood:

16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:

17 And the way of peace have they not known:

18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.

19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by thee law and the prophets;

22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

25 Whom God hath sset forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

[(ἱλαστήριον

(original idea,

propitiation of an angry god), (a) a sin offering, by which the wrath of the deity shall be appeased, a means of propitiation, Rom. 3:25; (b) the covering of the ark, which was sprinkled with the atoning blood on the Day of Atonement (Hebr. Kappôreth), Heb. 9:5.)]

26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

Rom 4:1-22

4:1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?

2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.

3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,l

7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:

12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:

15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb:

20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness1

1 The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Ro 2:25–4:22.

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With so many different situations and circumstances all round us we need a Good laugh every now and then.

Laughter

God promise To Abram is so great that that he changed his name to Abraham even Sarai changed to Sarah Gen 17:5

but to Abraham an Heir was very important but He was old .God’s plan was not just for the Jews only but for all man kind. It was not for a particular ethnicity or what nationality you are born in.

It is about you having faith in God.

John 3:16,

Rom 10:9 -13,

, Acts 4:12,

Phil 2:10-11

Gen 17:15-16

17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!

19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time1

1 The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009),

. Ge 17:17–21.

.. 18:1 And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; 1

1 The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Ge 18:1.

9 And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.

And he said, I will certainly return unto thee haccording to the time of life; and, lo, iSarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him. -

.10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee haccording to the time of life; and, lo, iSarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.

11 Now kAbraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah lafter the manner of women.

12 Therefore Sarah mlaughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my nlord being old also?

13 And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?

14 oIs any thing too hard for the Lord? pAt the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

15 Then Sarah qdenied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.

16 And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went

1 The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Ge 18:9–10.

 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. 1

1 The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Ge 18:11.

, Gen 18:9-18;12;14

Gen 21: 1-8; 6

God will keep his word and make you laugh

Gen 18:14

14 Is any thing too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. 11 The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Ge 18:14...

Jer 32:17

17 Ah Lord God! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee: 11 The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Je 32:17..

Num 23:19

uGod is not a man, that he should lie;

Neither the son of man, that he should repent:

Hath he said, and shall he not do it?

Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

Jer 32:27

-Behold, I am the Lord, xthe God of all flesh: bis there any thing too hard for me?

Luke 1:37

For cwith God nothing shall be impossible.

Matt 19:26

But Jesus kbeheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but lwith God all things are possible.

John 3:16

Rom 10:9-13

Acts 4:12

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