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title: לַעַג — mocking · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לַעַג (3933), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: mocking. BDB 1906: mocking, derision stammering. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לַעַג

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«לַעַג» in the Tanakh dictionary: **mocking** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 7 times · **Key:** 3933 · **BDB:** לַ֫עַג

### Glosses

mockery (6); be\].their.mockery (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

mocking [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3933/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

mocking, derision stammering [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3933/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] mocking, derision, (barbarous) stammering;—abs. ל׳ Jb 34:7 + 2 times + ψ 123:4 (הַלּ׳ MT cstr. c. art.—so KöSynt.§ 303 e—but prob. insert לְ foll. Hup Now Bae, cf. also Ges§ 127 g), + Ez 23:32 (but del. 𝔊B Hi Co Berthol), + 36:4 (where Co reads בלע, but less prob., cf. Berthol); sf. לַעְגָּם Ho 7:16 (v. infr.); pl. cstr. לַעֲגֵי Is 28:11 (v. infr.);— mocking, derision, ψ 123:4 (‖ בוז); so appar. c. sf. as gen. obj. Ho 7:16 (but very dub., probably corrupt, cf. We Now); nearly = blasphemy Jb 34:7. = obj. of derision ψ 44:14 = 79:4 (‖ חֶרְפָּה, קֶלֶס); so also Ez 23:32 (‖ צחק; si vera l., v. supr.), 36:4. stammerings (of barbarous language), ל׳ שָׂפָה Is 28:11 (‖ לָשׁוֹן אַחֶרֶת; so Ew Brd Di Hup-Now ψ 35:16, De al. sub לָעֵג); but GrMonatsschr. 1884, 45 reads עלגי, √ עלג.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לַעַג» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3933/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 34:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.7/)

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מִי־גֶ֥בֶר כְּאִיּ֑וֹב יִֽשְׁתֶּה־לַּ֥עַג כַּמָּֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* who? \[is\].a.man like Job he.drinks mockery like (the) water

*JPS 1917:* What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?

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[Psalms 79:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.79.4/)

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הָיִ֣ינוּ חֶ֭רְפָּה לִשְׁכֵנֵ֑ינוּ לַ֥עַג וָ֝קֶ֗לֶס לִסְבִיבוֹתֵֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* we.have.become a.reproach to neighbors our mockery and derision to.\[those\] around us

*JPS 1917:* We are become a taunt to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

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