קָלַס
kalas · mock, scoff
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7046 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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kalas (קָלַס) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mock, scoff”.
At someone, hold him in contempt.
How to say it
ka·las
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
- Laugh at someone with contempt.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- mocked ×1
- scoffs ×1
- will mock ×1
- you scoffed ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 2 Kings 2:23
He went up from there to Bethel, and as he was going up on the road, small boys came out of the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, baldhead! Go up, baldhead!”
- Ezekiel 16:31
When you built your mound at the head of every road and made your lofty place in every square, you were not like the prostitute, for you scoffed at the fee.
- Ezekiel 22:5
Those near and those far from you will mock you, unclean of name, full of confusion.
- Habakkuk 1:10
And it scoffs at kings, and dignitaries are a laughingstock to it; it laughs at every fortress, and heaps up dirt and captures it.