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Genesis 21:6

וַ תֹּאמֶר שָׂרָה צְחֹק עָשָׂה לִי אֶלֹהִים כָּל הַ שֹּׁמֵעַ יִצְחַק לִי
And ContentiousWoman is saying, `Elohim has made to-myself a laughing-one,716 the whole of the One-who-hears717 is laughing to-myself.`
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Strong’s #6712, tsechoq. Laughter, laughing-one. From the context of the only other place the word is used it is taken to mean laughter in derision,

A cup of your sister you are drinking, the Deep and the Broad. she is becomingto a laughing-one [tsechoq] and to a mocking-one, much to contain.” Ezekiel 23:32 literal