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Saturday, November 23rd, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33

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Bible Lexicons

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Strong's #3932 - לָעַג

Transliteration

lâʻag

Phonetics

law-ag'

Origin

a primitive root

Parts of Speech

verb

TWOT

1118

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

to mock, deride, ridicule
1. (Qal) to mock, deride, have in derision
2. (Niphal) to stammer
3. (Hiphil) to mock, deride

Greek Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 3456 ‑ μυκτηρίζω (mook'‑tay‑rid'‑zo); 2606 ‑ καταγελάω (kat‑ag‑el‑ah'‑o); 1592 ‑ ἐκμυκτηρίζω (ek‑mook‑ter‑id'‑zo);

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (18)

2 Kings 1

2 Chronicles 1

Nehemiah 2

Job 4

Psalms 4

Proverbs 3

Isaiah 2

Jeremiah 1

BSB (18)

2 Kings 1

2 Chronicles 1

Nehemiah 2

Job 4

Psalms 4

Proverbs 3

Isaiah 2

Jeremiah 1

CSB (18)

2 Kings 1

2 Chronicles 1

Nehemiah 2

Job 4

Psalms 4

Proverbs 3

Isaiah 2

Jeremiah 1

ESV (18)

2 Kings 1

2 Chronicles 1

Nehemiah 2

Job 4

Psalms 4

Proverbs 3

Isaiah 2

Jeremiah 1

KJV (18)

2 Kings 1

2 Chronicles 1

Nehemiah 2

Job 4

Psalms 4

Proverbs 3

Isaiah 2

Jeremiah 1

LEB (19)

2 Kings 1

2 Chronicles 1

Nehemiah 2

Job 4

Psalms 4

Proverbs 3

Isaiah 2

Jeremiah 1

Ezekiel 1

LSB (18)

2 Kings 1

2 Chronicles 1

Nehemiah 2

Job 4

Psalms 4

Proverbs 3

Isaiah 2

Jeremiah 1

N95 (14)

2 Kings 1

2 Chronicles 1

Nehemiah 2

Job 4

Proverbs 3

Isaiah 2

Jeremiah 1

NAS (18)

2 Kings 1

2 Chronicles 1

Nehemiah 2

Job 4

Psalms 4

Proverbs 3

Isaiah 2

Jeremiah 1

NLT (0)

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

WEB (18)

2 Kings 1

2 Chronicles 1

Nehemiah 2

Job 4

Psalms 4

Proverbs 3

Isaiah 2

Jeremiah 1

ASV (18)

and mocked 1

and mocked them 1

and when thou mockest 1

every one mocketh me 1

he will mock 1

i will mock 1

in derision 1

it, they laughed us to scorn 1

laugh among themselves 1

laugh them to scorn 1

me laugh me to scorn 1

mock on 1

of a strange 1

that mocketh 1

thee and laughed thee to scorn 2

whoso mocketh 1

will have them in derision 1

BSB (18)

and mocked 1

and mocks 2

he mocks 1

he ridiculed 1

he who mocks 1

i will sneer 1

mock 3

mocks 1

taunts them 1

that mocks 1

they mocked 1

who stammer 1

will you scoff 1

you may go on mocking 1

you scoff 1

CSB (18)

and scorns 1

continue mocking 1

make fun 1

mock 1

mock them 1

mocked 3

mocks 2

mocks me 1

ridicule 1

ridicules 2

ridiculing 1

scorns you 1

stammer 1

that ridicules 1

ESV (18)

derision 2

jeered 2

laugh 1

mock 3

mock on 1

mocked 1

mocks 5

scorns 2

stammering 1

KJV (18)

derision 2

laugh 2

mock 1

mocked 2

mockest 1

mocketh 3

on 1

scorn 5

stammering 1

LEB (19)

⌊and when you mock 1

and as scorn 1

and he mocked 1

and they mocked 1

derides them 1

he mocks 1

he who mocks 1

i will mock 1

is mocking me 1

me mock me 1

mock among themselves 1

mocks at them 1

she derides you 1

she scorns you 1

that mocks 1

them and mocking them 1

whose stammering of 1

you can mock 1

you will mock 1

LSB (18)

mock 7

mocked 4

mocking 1

mocks 5

stammering 1

N95 (14)

mock 3

mocked 5

mocks 4

scoff 1

stammering 1

NAS (18)

deride 1

derided 1

laugh 1

mock 3

mocked 4

mocks 4

scoff 2

scoffs 1

stammering 1

NLT (0)

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

WEB (18)

and mocked 1

every one mocks me 1

he will mock 1

i will mock 1

laugh among themselves 1

mock on 1

ridicule them 1

that mocks 1

when you mock 1

whoever mocks 1

will have them in derision 1

with a strange 1

you and ridiculed 2

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

2313) c o l (לאהג LAhG) AC: Mock CO: ? AB: ?: A mocking by stammering or imitation of a foreign tongue. [from: ol- as coming from the throat]

V) c o l (לאהג LAhG) - Mock: KJV (18): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil) mock, scorn, laugh, deride, stammer - Strongs: H3932 (לָעַג)

N^m) c o l (לאהג LAhG) - Mocking: KJV (9): scorn, derision, mocker, stammer - Strongs: H3933 (לַעַג), H3934 (לָעֵג)

e^m) c o i l (ליאהג LYAhG) - Mocker: KJV (1): stammerer - Strongs: H5926 (עִלֵּג)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

[לָעַג] verb mock, deride; also (Niph`al) stammer, in poetry (Late Hebrew Hiph`il id.; ᵑ7לְעֵג Aph`el id.;

stutter (compare Late Hebrew לִגְלֵג mock, ᵑ7לַגְלֵג id.; Syriac

stutter, Arabic

id.)); —

Qal Perfect 3 feminine singular לָֽעֲגָה 2 Kings 19:21; Isaiah 37:22; Imperfect יִלְעַגֿ Job 22:19; Psalm 2:4 יִלְעָ֑ג Job 9:23; 3 feminine singular תִּלְעַג Proverbs 30:17; 2 masculine singular תִּלְעַג Psalm 59:9, ׳וַתִּל Job 11:3; 1 singular אֶלְעַג Proverbs 1:26; 3 masculine plural יִלְעֲגוּֿ Psalm 80:7; Participle לֹעֵג Proverbs 17:5; Jeremiah 20:7; — mock, deride, have in derision, of Jerusalem triumphing over enemy (with לְ person or thing) 2 Kings 19:21 = Isaiah 37:22 ("" בזה); of the innocent Job 22:19 ("" שׂמח); of God (with לְ) Job 9:23; Psalm 2:4; Psalm 59:9; absolute of wisdom Proverbs 1:26 ("" שׂחק); of wicked (with לְ) Proverbs 17:5 ("" שׂמח), Proverbs 30:17 ("" בוז), Jeremiah 20:7 ("" שׂחק); so also perhaps Psalm 80:7 (read לָנוּ for לָמוֺ with ᵐ5ᵑ6 ᵑ9), compare (absolute) Job 11:3.

Niph`al Participle עַם ֗֗֗ נִלְעַג לָשׁוֺן Isaiah 33:19 a people stammering of tongue (i.e. barbarians, compare v^a; but read נעלג [√ עלג] Gr^{Monatsschr. 1884,45}; "" עִמְקֵי שָׂפָה).

Hiph`il (late; compare Late Hebrew) Imperfect 3 masculine singular וַיַּלְעֵג Nehemiah 3:33; 2 masculine singular תַּלְעִיג Job 21:3; 3 masculine plural יַלְעִגוּ Psalm 22:8, וַיַּלְעִגוּ Nehemiah 2:19; Participle מַלְעִגִים 2 Chronicles 30:10; — mock, deride, always in bad sense: with לְ person Nehemiah 2:19 ("" בזה), Psalm 22:8; with עַלֿ person Nehemiah 3:33; with בְּ person 2 Chronicles 30:10 ("" השׂחיק); absolute Job 21:3. — So also יִלְעִיג (or יִלְעַג) Proverbs 18:1 for ᵑ0יִתְגַּלַּע Gr^{l. c} (see גלע, p. 166 above).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

לָעַג properly to stammer (Syriac ܠܥܶܓ, also ܠܓܰܥܝܶܓ, لَغْلَغَ, لَخْلَجَ Eth. ላዕላዕ and ላእላእ፡ stammerer, compare לָעַז), hence

(1) to speak barbarously, in a foreign language (compare לוּץ), comp. Niphal, and transp. עִלֵּג, عِلْجُ speaking barbarously.

(2) to mock at, to deride, prop. to imitate any one’s voice in stammering, by way of derision (Chald. לַגְלַג to mock. Compare transp. Greek γελάω, also χλεύη, χλευάζω, Goth. hlahjan, lahhan, Pers. لاغيدن to joke, Germ. lachen, to laugh). Proverbs 1:26 followed by a dat. of pers. Proverbs 17:5. Psalms 2:4, אֲדנָי יִלְעַג לָמוֹ “the Lord will mock at them,” shall despise them as enemies who can accomplish nothing; 59:9 Job 22:19

Niphal, to speak barbarously, in a foreign language, Isaiah 33:19.

Hiphil, i.q. Kal No. 2, to mock, to deride, Job 21:3 followed by לְ Psalms 22:8; Nehemiah 2:19 followed by בְּ 2 Chronicles 30:10. Hence

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List of Word Forms

אֶ֝לְעַ֗ג אלעג וַ֝תִּלְעַ֗ג וַיַּלְעִ֣גוּ וַיַּלְעֵ֖ג וּלְלַ֖עַג וּמַלְעִגִ֖ים וילעג וילעגו וללעג ומלעגים ותלעג יִלְעֲגוּ־ יִלְעַג־ יִלְעָֽג׃ יַלְעִ֣גוּ ילעג־ ילעג׃ ילעגו ילעגו־ לָעֲגָ֣ה לֹעֵ֣ג לֹעֵ֥ג לעג לעגה נִלְעַ֥ג נלעג תִּ֝לְעַ֗ג תִּֽלְעַ֣ג תַלְעִֽיג׃ תלעג תלעיג׃ ’el‘aḡ ’el·‘aḡ elAg lā‘ăḡāh lā·‘ă·ḡāh laaGah lō‘êḡ lō·‘êḡ loEg nil‘aḡ nil·‘aḡ nilAg ṯal‘îḡ ṯal·‘îḡ talIg til‘aḡ til·‘aḡ tilAg ū·lə·la·‘aḡ ū·mal·‘i·ḡîm ūləla‘aḡ uleLaag ūmal‘iḡîm umaliGim vaiyalEg vaiyalIgu vattilAg wat·til·‘aḡ wattil‘aḡ way·yal·‘êḡ way·yal·‘i·ḡū wayyal‘êḡ wayyal‘iḡū yal‘iḡū yal·‘i·ḡū yalIgu yil‘āḡ yil‘aḡ- yil‘ăḡū- yil·‘ă·ḡū- yil·‘āḡ yil·‘aḡ- yilAg yilagu