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# תֵּעְתֻּעִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8595

**mockery** — 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

mockery [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8595/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּעְתֻּעִים: pl. abstr. mockery [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8595/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\]pl. abstr. mockery;—מַעֲשֵׂה ת׳, epith. of idols, Je 10:15; 51:18 (both + הֶבֶל).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 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 mockeri(es) (2).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 10:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.10.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.10.15/#tree)

הֶ֣בֶל הֵ֔מָּה מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה תַּעְתֻּעִ֑ים בְּעֵ֥ת פְּקֻדָּתָ֖ם יֹאבֵֽדוּ׃

*Word for word:* \[are\].futility they a.work of.mockeri(es) at the.time their.punishment their they.will.perish

*JPS 1917:* They are vanity, a work of delusion; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

[Jeremiah 51:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.18/#tree)

הֶ֣בֶל הֵ֔מָּה מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה תַּעְתֻּעִ֑ים בְּעֵ֥ת פְּקֻדָּתָ֖ם יֹאבֵֽדוּ׃

*Word for word:* \[are\].futility they a.work of.mockeri(es) at the.time their.punishment their they.will.perish

*JPS 1917:* They are vanity, a work of delusion; in the time of their visitation they shall perish,

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8595/): 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).