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title: לָעַב — jest · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לָעַב (3931), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: jest. BDB 1906: vb. jest. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לָעַב

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«לָעַב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **jest** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3931 · **BDB:** לָעַב

### Glosses

deriding (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

jest [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3931/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. jest [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3931/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. jest (NH Hiph. id.; 𝔗 לְעַב Ethpa. id.; Syriac ܠܥܰܒ Ethpa. mock, delight oneself, be greedy; Arabic لَعِبَ play, sport, jest);—only Pt. וַיִּהְיוּ מַלְעִבִים בְּ׳ 2 Ch 36:16 and they were (continually) making jest at the messengers of God.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לָעַב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3931/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Chronicles 36:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.36.16/)

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וַיִּֽהְי֤וּ מַלְעִבִים֙ בְּמַלְאֲכֵ֣י הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים וּבוֹזִ֣ים דְּבָרָ֔יו וּמִֽתַּעְתְּעִ֖ים בִּנְבִאָ֑יו עַ֠ד עֲל֧וֹת חֲמַת־יְהוָ֛ה בְּעַמּ֖וֹ עַד־לְאֵ֥ין מַרְפֵּֽא׃

*Word for word:* and they.were deriding (in).the messengers of.(the) God and despising words his and mocking at prophets his until came.up the.rage of.Yahweh on people his until (to).there.\[was\] not healing

*JPS 1917:* but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against His people, till there was no remedy.

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