Mockery
שֶׂ֫פֶקStrong’s H5607sepheq (se-pheq)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sepheq is the Hebrew word usually translated “sufficiency his” and “mockery”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.”
Meaning
- Handclapping, mocking, mockery, scorn
- Sufficiency, plenty
How it's translated
- sufficiency his 1
- in mockery 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שֶׂ֫פֶק sepheq · mockery
handclapping, mocking, mockery, scorn
שֵׂ֫פֶק sepheq · sufficiency
sufficiency, plenty
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.