לָעֵג
laeg · mocker
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3934 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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laeg (לָעֵג) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mocker”.
One who makes others laugh at someone else's expense.
How to say it
la·eg
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
- To laugh at another with scorn, like the wicked of the psalm.
- Clumsy, strange speech, like a foreign tongue.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- stammerings ×1
- who mock ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Psalms 35:16
Like the godless who mock for a cake, they gnashed at me their teeth.
- Isaiah 28:11
For with stammerings of lip and with another tongue he will speak to this people,