Mockery
מְלִיצָהStrong’s H4426melitsah (me-li-tsah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Melitsah is the Hebrew word usually translated “enigma” and “mocking song”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.”
Meaning
- Satire, mocking poem, mocking song, taunting, figure, enigma
How it's translated
- and an enigma 1
- and a mocking song 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 1
- Habakkuk 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
מְלִיצָה melitsah · mockery
satire, mocking poem, mocking song, taunting, figure, enigma
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mockery” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MOCK'ERY, noun
The act of deriding and exposing to contempt, by mimicking the words or actions of another.
- Derision; ridicule; sportive insult or contempt; contemptuous merriment at persons or things.
- Sport; subject of laughter.
- Vain imitation or effort; that which deceives, disappoints or frustrates.
- Imitation; counterfeit appearance; false show.
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.