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title: לָעֵג — mocking · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לָעֵג (3934), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: mocking. BDB 1906: adj. mocking. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לָעֵג

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«לָעֵג» 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 3934 · **BDB:** לָעֵג²

### Glosses

of.mockers (1); stammerings (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

mocking [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3934/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. mocking [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3934/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. mocking, only pl. cstr. as noun (si vera l.), לַעֲגֵי מָעוֹג ψ 35:16 mockers of מָעוֹג (q.v.), but text dub.; Che reads לֹעֲגֵי, SchwallyZAW xi. 1890, 258 לָֽעֲגוּ.—To \[לָעֵג\] is also referred לַעֲגֵי Is 28:11 by Ges De Che Du, לַעַג q.v.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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 «לָעֵג» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3934/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 35:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.16/)

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בְּ֭חַנְפֵי לַעֲגֵ֣י מָע֑וֹג חָרֹ֖ק עָלַ֣י שִׁנֵּֽימוֹ׃

*Word for word:* (in).godless \[ones\] of.mockers of.cake they.gnashed towards me teeth their

*JPS 1917:* With the profanest mockeries of backbiting they gnash at me with their teeth.

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[Isaiah 28:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.11/)

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כִּ֚י בְּלַעֲגֵ֣י שָׂפָ֔ה וּבְלָשׁ֖וֹן אַחֶ֑רֶת יְדַבֵּ֖ר אֶל־הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) by stammerings of.lip and by a.language another he.will.speak to the people (the) this

*JPS 1917:* For with stammering lips and with a strange tongue shall it be spoken to this people;

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