Derision
קַלָּסָהStrong’s H7048qallasah (qal-la-sah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Qallasah is the Hebrew word usually translated “derision”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.”
Meaning
- Mocking, derision
How it's translated
- and derision 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
קַלָּסָה qallasah · derision
mocking, derision
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
- The act of laughing at in contempt.
- Contempt manifested by laughter; scorn.“I am in derision daily” Jeremiah 20:7
- 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.