To mock
לָעַגStrong’s H3932laag (la-ag)
Appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Laag is the Hebrew word usually translated “mocks”, “has mocked” and “mock”. It appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament.
“This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.”
Meaning
- To mock, deride, ridicule(Qal) to mock, deride, have in derision · (Niphal) to stammer · (Hiphil) to mock, deride
How it's translated
- he mocks 3
- she has mocked 2
- they mock 2
- and mocking 1
- and they mocked 1
- and he mocked 1
- and have you mocked 1
- you will mock 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 4
- Psalms 4
- Proverbs 3
- Nehemiah 2
- Isaiah 2
- 2 Kings 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 30:10So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
- Nehemiah 2:19But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
- Nehemiah 4:1But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
- Job 9:23If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
- Job 11:3Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
- Job 21:3Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
Hebrew dictionary
לָעַג laag · to mock
1) to mock, deride, ridicule 1a) (Qal) to mock, deride, have in derision 1b) (Niphal) to stammer 1c) (Hiphil) to mock, deride
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.