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To mock

καταγελάωStrong’s G2606

katagelaō

Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament

In short

Katagelaō is the Greek word usually translated “were mocking”, “were laughing at” and “were laughing”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.

“He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.”
Matthew 9:24 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “were mocking”, “were laughing at” and “were laughing”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • they were mocking 1
  • they were laughing at 1
  • they were laughing 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Matthew 1
  • Mark 1
  • Luke 1

3 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

καταγελάω katagelaō · to mock

κατα-γελάω, -ῶ [in LXX chiefly for שָׂחַק, Job.5:22, Pro.29:9, al. ;] to deride, laugh scornfully at: with genitive of person(s), Mat.9:24, Mrk.5:40, Luk.8:53.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “mock” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

MOCK, verb transitive

  1. Properly, to imitate; to mimick; hence, to imitate in contempt or derision; to mimick for the sake of derision; to deride by mimicry.
  2. To deride; to laugh at; to ridicule; to treat with scorn or contempt.“As he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, saying, go up, thou bald head” 2 Kings 2:23
  3. To defeat; to illude; to disappoint; to deceive; as, to mock expectation.“Thou hast mocked me and told me lies” Judges 16:10
  4. To fool; to tantalize; to play on in contempt.
All definitions and other forms of “mock”

    MOCK, verb intransitive

    To make sport in contempt or in jest, or to speak jestingly.

    1. “When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?” Job 11:3

    MOCK, noun

    Ridicule; derision; sneer; an act manifesting contempt.

    1. “Fools make a mock at sin” Proverbs 14:9
    2. Imitation; mimicry. [Little used.]

    MOCK, adjective

    False, counterfeit; assumed; imitating reality, but not real.

      Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.