Derision
שִׁמְצָהStrong’s H8103shimtsah (shim-tsah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shimtsah is the Hebrew word usually translated “derision”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)”
Meaning
- Whisper, derision, whispering
How it's translated
- for derision 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁמְצָה shimtsah · derision
whisper, derision, whispering
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.