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Genesis 26:8

8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, look, Isaac was playing with Rebekah his wife.[fn]

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Hebrew מְצַחֵק ("playing") is the same verbal root as Isaac's name (יִצְחָק, "he laughs"); in this construction it implies intimacy. The wordplay might be seen in a more literal phrasing: "the Laugher (Isaac) was laugh-playing with..."

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