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# לָצוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3944

**scorning** — used 3 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

scorning [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3944/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לָצוֹן: scorning [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3944/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] scorning, Pr 1:22; אַנְשֵׁי לָצוֹן men of scorning, scorners = לֵצִים 29:8 Is 28:14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: of mockery (2); mockery (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 29:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.8/#tree)

אַנְשֵׁ֣י לָ֭צוֹן יָפִ֣יחוּ קִרְיָ֑ה וַ֝חֲכָמִ֗ים יָשִׁ֥יבוּ אָֽף׃

*Word for word:* people of.mockery they.inflame a.town and wise.\[people\] they.turn.away anger

*JPS 1917:* Scornful men set a city in a blaze; but wise men turn away wrath.

[Proverbs 1:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.1.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.1.22/#tree)

עַד־מָתַ֣י ׀ פְּתָיִם֮ תְּֽאֵהֲב֫וּ פֶ֥תִי וְלֵצִ֗ים לָ֭צוֹן חָמְד֣וּ לָהֶ֑ם וּ֝כְסִילִ֗ים יִשְׂנְאוּ־דָֽעַת׃

*Word for word:* until when? O.naive.people will.you.love naiveté and mockers mockery do.they.delight.in? (for themselves and fools will.they.hate? knowledge

*JPS 1917:* 'How long, ye thoughtless, will ye love thoughtlessness? And how long will scorners delight them in scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3944.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3944/): 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).