luts · interpreter; scoff

What it means

luts (לוּץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “interpreter; scoff”.

Interpreter: one who translates between two languages; also envoy. Elsewhere, scoff, mock.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To laugh at what is serious with contempt; the scoffer rejects correction.
2. One who repeats in his own language what another says: an interpreter or an envoy.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• scoffer ×12
• scoffers ×4
• interpreter ×2
• interpreters ×2
• mock ×2
• scoff ×2
• have mocked me ×1
• mocks ×1
• scoffs ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×18
• Isaiah×3

• Genesis 42:23

  They did not know that Joseph understood, for the interpreter was between them.

• 2 Chronicles 32:31

  And so, with the interpreters of the officials of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, Elohim left him, to test him, to know all that was in his heart.

• Job 16:20

  Those who mock me are my companions; toward Eloah my eye drips,

• Job 33:23

  If there is beside him a messenger, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to declare to a human being his uprightness,

• Psalms 1:1

  Happy is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or stand in the way of sinners, or sit in the seat of scoffers;

• Psalms 119:51

  The insolent have mocked me exceedingly; from your instruction I have not turned aside.

• Proverbs 1:22

  “How long, simple ones, will you love simpleness, and scoffers delight in scoffing for themselves, and the senseless hate knowledge?

• Proverbs 3:34

  If he scoffs at the scoffers, then to the humble he gives favor.

• Proverbs 9:7

  He who corrects a scoffer gets disgrace for himself, and he who reproves a wicked man gets his blemish.

• Proverbs 9:8

  Do not reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

• Proverbs 9:12

  If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; and if you scoff, you alone will bear it.

• Proverbs 13:1

  A wise son hears the correction of a father, but a scoffer does not hear rebuke.

• Proverbs 14:6

  A scoffer seeks wisdom, and there is none; but knowledge is easy for the discerning.

• Proverbs 14:9

  Fools mock at guilt, but among the upright there is favor.

• Proverbs 15:12

  A scoffer does not love one who reproves him; to the wise he will not go.

• Proverbs 19:25

  Strike a scoffer, and the simple will become shrewd; and reprove the discerning, and he will understand knowledge.

• Proverbs 19:28

  A perverse witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked swallows wickedness.

• Proverbs 19:29

  Judgments are prepared for scoffers, and blows for the back of the senseless.

• Proverbs 20:1

  A scoffer is wine, a brawler intoxicating drink, and anyone who strays by it is not wise.

• Proverbs 21:11

  When the scoffer is fined, the simple becomes wise; and when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

• Proverbs 21:24

  Insolent, arrogant, “scoffer” is his name, who acts with the fury of insolence.

• Proverbs 22:10

  Drive out the scoffer, and strife will go out; and dispute and disgrace will cease.

• Proverbs 24:9

  The infamy of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to mankind.

• Isaiah 28:22

  And now do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for an extermination, and one decreed, I have heard from Adonai YHWH Tsevaot upon all the earth.

• Isaiah 29:20

  For the tyrant has come to nothing, and the scoffer is finished, and all who watch for wickedness will be cut off,

• Isaiah 43:27

  Your first father sinned, and your interpreters transgressed against me.

And 1 more times.