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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #3931 - לָעַב

Transliteration

lâʻab

Phonetics

law-ab'

Origin

a primitive root

Parts of Speech

verb

TWOT

1117

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

to joke, jest
1. (Hiphil) to make jokes

Greek Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 3456 ‑ μυκτηρίζω (mook'‑tay‑rid'‑zo);

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (1)

2 Chronicles 1

BSB (1)

2 Chronicles 1

CSB (1)

2 Chronicles 1

ESV (1)

2 Chronicles 1

KJV (1)

2 Chronicles 1

LEB (1)

2 Chronicles 1

LSB (1)

2 Chronicles 1

N95 (1)

2 Chronicles 1

NAS (1)

2 Chronicles 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (1)

2 Chronicles 1

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

2312) b o l (לאהב LAhB) AC: Mock CO: ? AB: ?: [from: ol- as coming from the throat]

V) b o l (לאהב LAhB) - Mock: KJV (1): (vf: Hiphil) mock - Strongs: H3931 (לָעַב)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

[לָעַב] verb jest (Late Hebrew Hiph`il id.; ᵑ7לְעַב Ethpa`al id.; Syriac

Ethpa`al mock, delight oneself, be greedy; Arabic

play, sport, jest); — only

Hiph`il Participle ׳וַיִּהְיוּ מַלְעִבִים בְּ 2 Chronicles 36:16 and they were (continually) making jest at the messengers of God.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

לָעַב unused in Kal. Arab. لَعِبَ to play, to jest, also to mock. (Kindred to the verbs לָעַג, לָעַז, see לוּעַ.) Chaldee לְעִיב mockery, אִתְלָעַב to mock at any one. Compare Gr. λώβη, λωβάομαι.

Hiphil, to mock at, followed by בִּ 2 Chronicles 36:16.

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List of Word Forms

מַלְעִבִים֙ מלעבים mal‘iḇîm mal·‘i·ḇîm maliVim