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Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #4426 - מְלִיצָה
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- satire, mocking poem, mocking song, taunting, figure, enigma
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1271) yl (לתס LTs) AC: Scorn CO: ? AB: Interpret: The pictograph l represents authority and the tongue as the authority, the y is a picture of a man on his side representing trouble. Combined these mean "tongue of trouble". The sound of one speaking a foreign language or the mocking of anothers speech.
A) yl (לתס LTs) AC: Scorn CO: ? AB: ?
jm ) nfyl (לתסונ LTsWN) - Scorn: KJV (3): scornful, scorning - Strongs: H3944 (לָצוֹן)
B) yyl (לתסתס LTsTs) AC: Scorn CO: ? AB: ?
V) yyl (לתסתס LTsTs) - Scorn: KJV (1): (vf: Paal) scorner - Strongs: H3945 (לָצַץ)
C) yla (אלתס ALTs) AC: Urge CO: ? AB: ?
V) yla (אלתס ALTs) - Urge: KJV (1): (vf: Piel) urge - Strongs: H509 (אָלַץ)
J) yfl (לותס LWTs) AC: Scorn CO: ? AB: ?
V) yfl (לותס LWTs) - I. Scorn: II. Interpret:KJV (27): (vf: Paal, Hiphil, Participle) scorner, scorn, interpreter, mocker, ambassador, derision, mocker, scornful, teacher - Strongs: H3887 (לִיץ)
M) yil (ליתס LYTs) AC: Interpret CO: ? AB: ?
kf1 ) eyilm (מליתסה MLYTsH) - I. Interpretation: II. Mocking:KJV (2): interpretation, taunting - Strongs: H4426 (מְלִיצָה)
Adopted Roots:
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
לישׁ (√ of following, Thes לושׁ; perhaps = be strong (Thes) compare Arabic 
, 
, strength; 
(medial י) III. see be strong, etc., apparently denominative = be lion-like).
מְלִיצָה f. (from the root לוּץ).
(1) a mocking song, Habakkuk 2:6, see the root Kal No. 2.
(2) prop. an interpretation; hence what needs an interpretation, an enigma, an obscure saying, Proverbs 1:6.
