Scorning
לָצוֹןStrong’s H3944latson (la-tson)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Latson is the Hebrew word usually translated “mockery”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?”
Meaning
- Scorning, bragging
How it's translated
- mockery 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 2
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
לָצוֹן latson · scorning
scorning, bragging
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “scorning” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SCORN'ING, participle present
tense Holding in great contempt; despising; disdaining.
All definitions and other forms of “scorning”
SCORN'ING, noun
The act of contemning; a treating with contempt, slight or disdain.
- “How long will the scorners delight in their scorning?” Proverbs 1:22
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.