To mock
לִיץStrong’s H3887luts
Appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Luts is the Hebrew word usually translated “mocker”, “mocks” and “mockers”. It appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.”
Meaning
- To scorn, make mouths at, talk arrogantly(Qal) · (Hiphil) · (Hithpalpel) to be inflated, scoff, act as a scorner, show oneself a mocker
How it's translated
- a mocker 9
- he mocks 3
- mockers 2
- mocker 2
- the interpreter 1
- in envoys of 1
- scoffing at me 1
- a mediator 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 17
- Isaiah 3
- Job 2
- Psalms 2
- Genesis 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 32:31Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
- Job 16:20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
- Job 33:23If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:
- Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
- Psalms 119:51The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
- Proverbs 1:22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Hebrew dictionary
לִיץ luts · to mock
1) to scorn, make mouths at, talk arrogantly 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to boast 1a2) to scorn 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to mock, deride 1b2) to interpret (language) 1b2a) interpreter (participle) 1b2b) ambassador (fig.) 1c) (Hithpalpel) to be inflated, scoff, act as a scorner, show oneself a mocker Also means: la.tsats (לָצַץ "to scorn" H3945)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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
- Properly, to imitate; to mimick; hence, to imitate in contempt or derision; to mimick for the sake of derision; to deride by mimicry.
- 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
- To defeat; to illude; to disappoint; to deceive; as, to mock expectation.“Thou hast mocked me and told me lies” Judges 16:10
- 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.
- “When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?” Job 11:3
MOCK, noun
Ridicule; derision; sneer; an act manifesting contempt.
- “Fools make a mock at sin” Proverbs 14:9
- 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.