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# קֶלֶס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7047

**derision** — 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

derision [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7047/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֶ֫לֶס: derision [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7047/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] derision, i.e., object of it, ‖ חֶרְפָּה;—Je 20:8, + לַעַג ψ 44:14; 79:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: derision (3).

## In the verses

[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.

[Psalms 44:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.44.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.44.14/#tree)

תְּשִׂימֵ֣נוּ חֶ֭רְפָּה לִשְׁכֵנֵ֑ינוּ לַ֥עַג וָ֝קֶ֗לֶס לִסְבִיבוֹתֵֽינוּ׃

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

*JPS 1917:* Thou makest us a taunt to our neighbours, a scorn and a 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/7047.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7047/): 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).