Mocking
לָעֵגStrong’s H3934laeg (la-eg)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Laeg is the Hebrew word usually translated “mockers of” and “stammerings of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.”
Meaning
- Mockingmocker (noun cstr)
How it's translated
- mockers of 1
- by stammerings of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
לָעֵג laeg · mocking
1) mocking 1a) mocker (noun cstr)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mocking” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MOCK'ING, participle present
tense Imitating in contempt; mimicking; ridiculing by mimicry; treating with sneers and scorn; defeating; deluding.
All definitions and other forms of “mocking”
MOCK'ING, noun
Derision; insult.
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.