לַעַג
laag · scorn, derision
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3933 · appears 7 times in the Bible
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laag (לַעַג) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “scorn, derision”.
Mockery, scorn.
How to say it
la·ag
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
- The contempt with which others laugh at someone fallen or defeated.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- mockery ×4
- derision ×2
- scorn ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 34:7
What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,
- Psalms 44:13
You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and a derision to those around us.
- Psalms 79:4
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and a derision to those around us.
- Psalms 123:4
Our soul is greatly sated with the mockery of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
- Ezekiel 23:32
Thus says Adonai YHWH: The cup of your sister you will drink, the deep and the wide; you will be for laughter and for derision; it holds much.
- Ezekiel 36:4
therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of Adonai YHWH: Thus says Adonai YHWH to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, and to the desolate ruins and to the abandoned cities that have become booty and mockery to the rest of the nations that are all around,
- Hosea 7:16
They turn, but not upward; they have become like a deceitful bow; their princes will fall by the sword because of the fury of their tongue; this will be their derision in the land of Egypt.