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# לַעַג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3933

**mocking** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

mocking [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3933/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לַ֫עַג: mocking, derision stammering [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3933/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] mocking, derision, (barbarous) stammering;—abs. ל׳ Jb 34:7 + 2 times + ψ 123:4 (הַלּ׳ MT cstr. c. art.—so KöSynt.§ 303 e—but prob. insert לְ foll. Hup Now Bae, cf. also Ges§ 127 g), + Ez 23:32 (but del. 𝔊B Hi Co Berthol), + 36:4 (where Co reads בלע, but less prob., cf. Berthol); sf. לַעְגָּם Ho 7:16 (v. infr.); pl. cstr. לַעֲגֵי Is 28:11 (v. infr.);— mocking, derision, ψ 123:4 (‖ בוז); so appar. c. sf. as gen. obj. Ho 7:16 (but very dub., probably corrupt, cf. We Now); nearly = blasphemy Jb 34:7. = obj. of derision ψ 44:14 = 79:4 (‖ חֶרְפָּה, קֶלֶס); so also Ez 23:32 (‖ צחק; si vera l., v. supr.), 36:4. stammerings (of barbarous language), ל׳ שָׂפָה Is 28:11 (‖ לָשׁוֹן אַחֶרֶת; so Ew Brd Di Hup-Now ψ 35:16, De al. sub לָעֵג); but GrMonatsschr. 1884, 45 reads עלגי, √ עלג.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: mockery (6); be\] their mockery (1).

## In the verses

[Job 34:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.7/#tree)

מִי־גֶ֥בֶר כְּאִיּ֑וֹב יִֽשְׁתֶּה־לַּ֥עַג כַּמָּֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* who? \[is\].a.man like Job he.drinks mockery like (the) water

*JPS 1917:* What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?

[Psalms 79:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.79.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.79.4/#tree)

הָיִ֣ינוּ חֶ֭רְפָּה לִשְׁכֵנֵ֑ינוּ לַ֥עַג וָ֝קֶ֗לֶס לִסְבִיבוֹתֵֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* we.have.become a.reproach to neighbors our mockery and derision to.\[those\] around us

*JPS 1917:* We are become a taunt to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3933.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3933/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).