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# לֵץ

Biblical Hebrew

**scorn** — used 16 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

scorn [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b5_5e5/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** v. sub ליץ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (3 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a mocker (9); mockers (3); \[is\] a mocker (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 24:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.24.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.24.9/#tree)

זִמַּ֣ת אִוֶּ֣לֶת חַטָּ֑את וְתוֹעֲבַ֖ת לְאָדָ֣ם לֵֽץ׃

*Word for word:* a.plan of.foolishness \[is\].sin and.\[is\] an.abomination to humankind a.mocker

*JPS 1917:* The thought of foolishness is sin; and the scorner is an abomination to men.

[Proverbs 13:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.1/#tree)

בֵּ֣ן חָ֭כָם מ֣וּסַר אָ֑ב וְ֝לֵ֗ץ לֹא־שָׁמַ֥ע גְּעָרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* a.son wise \[the\].discipline of.a.father and a.mocker not he.listens.to a.rebuke

*JPS 1917:* A wise son is instructed of his father; but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5dc_5b5_5e5.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b5_5e5/): 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).