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Derision

לַ֫עַגStrong’s H3933

laag (la-ag)

Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Laag is the Hebrew word usually translated “mockery”, “mockery of” and “mockery their”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.

“What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?”
Job 34:7 KJV
Meaning
  1. Mocking, derision, stammeringmocking, derision · stammerings
How it's translated
  • mockery 3
  • and mockery 2
  • the mockery of 1
  • mockery their 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 3
  • Ezekiel 2
  • Job 1
  • Hosea 1

4 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

לַ֫עַג laag · derision

1) mocking, derision, stammering 1a) mocking, derision 1b) stammerings

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

DERISION, noun

  1. The act of laughing at in contempt.
  2. Contempt manifested by laughter; scorn.“I am in derision daily” Jeremiah 20:7
  3. An object of derision or contempt; a laughing-stock.“I was a derision to all my people” Lamentations 3:14

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.