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# לָעֵג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3934

**mocking** — used 2 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/1500/3934/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לָעֵג²: adj. mocking [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3934/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. mocking, only pl. cstr. as noun (si vera l.), לַעֲגֵי מָעוֹג ψ 35:16 mockers of מָעוֹג (q.v.), but text dub.; Che reads לֹעֲגֵי, SchwallyZAW xi. 1890, 258 לָֽעֲגוּ.—To \[לָעֵג\] is also referred לַעֲגֵי Is 28:11 by Ges De Che Du, לַעַג q.v.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: of mockers (1); stammerings (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 35:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.16/#tree)

בְּ֭חַנְפֵי לַעֲגֵ֣י מָע֑וֹג חָרֹ֖ק עָלַ֣י שִׁנֵּֽימוֹ׃

*Word for word:* (in).godless \[ones\] of.mockers of.cake they.gnashed towards me teeth their

*JPS 1917:* With the profanest mockeries of backbiting they gnash at me with their teeth.

[Isaiah 28:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.11/#tree)

כִּ֚י בְּלַעֲגֵ֣י שָׂפָ֔ה וּבְלָשׁ֖וֹן אַחֶ֑רֶת יְדַבֵּ֖ר אֶל־הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) by stammerings of.lip and by a.language another he.will.speak to the people (the) this

*JPS 1917:* For with stammering lips and with a strange tongue shall it be spoken to this people;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3934.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3934/): 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).