לָצוֹן
latson · scorn, mockery
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3944 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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latson (לָצוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “scorn, mockery”.
Scorn, the contempt of one who laughs at everything; the attitude of the scoffer.
How to say it
la·tson
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 of one who laughs at everything and everyone, even the sacred.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Proverbs 1:22
“How long, simple ones, will you love simpleness, and scoffers delight in scoffing for themselves, and the senseless hate knowledge?
- Proverbs 29:8
Men of scoffing inflame a city, but the wise turn away anger.
- Isaiah 28:14
Therefore hear the word of YHWH, you men of scoffing, rulers of this people that is in Jerusalem.