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# קָלַס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7046

**mock** — used 4 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

mock [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7046/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָלַס: vb. mock, scoff [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7046/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. mock, scoff (Ecclus 11:4 תקלס, text by AdlerJQ xii (1900), 470);— Inf. cstr. לְקַלֵּס אֶתְנָן Ez 16:31 to scoff at hire (of Jerusalem under fig. of harlot), but 𝔊 𝔖 Symm collect, read לִקְבֹּץ Gr Toy Krae (or לְלַקֵּט, Co). mock, deride, c. ב pers., Impf. 3 ms. יִתְקַלָּ֑ס Hb 1:10; 3 mpl. יִתְקַלְּסוּ Ez 22:5, וַיִּת׳ 2 K 2:23.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it derides (1); scorn (1); they derided (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 22:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.22.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.22.5/#tree)

הַקְּרֹב֛וֹת וְהָרְחֹק֥וֹת מִמֵּ֖ךְ יִתְקַלְּסוּ־בָ֑ךְ טְמֵאַ֣ת הַשֵּׁ֔ם רַבַּ֖ת הַמְּהוּמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.\[nations\] nearby and the.\[nations\] far.off from you they.will.deride (in) you O.unclean of.(the) name O.great.\[one\] of.(the) turmoil

*JPS 1917:* Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall mock thee, thou defiled of name and full of tumult.

[Habakkuk 1:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.1.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.1.10/#tree)

וְהוּא֙ בַּמְּלָכִ֣ים יִתְקַלָּ֔ס וְרֹזְנִ֖ים מִשְׂחָ֣ק ל֑וֹ ה֚וּא לְכָל־מִבְצָ֣ר יִשְׂחָ֔ק וַיִּצְבֹּ֥ר עָפָ֖ר וַֽיִּלְכְּדָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and it (in the kings it.derides and rulers \[are\].laughter to it it to every fortress it.laughs and it.heaped.up earth and it captured.it

*JPS 1917:* And they scoff at kings, and princes are a derision unto them; they deride every stronghold, for they heap up earth, and take it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7046.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7046/): 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).