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Hebrew verb · H3932

לָעַג

laaglaw-ag'

to mock

18 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: lâʻag

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3932is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 8 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 16
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H3932

to deride; by implication (as if imitating a foreigner) to speak unintelligibly

The King James renders it: have in derision, laugh (to scorn), mock (on), stammering.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

laag is rendered "to mock". It stands 18 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.

  • Four of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Kings 19:21This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.
  • The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.

The first use

This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.

2 Kings 19:21לָעֲגָ֣ה

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in eight of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 31 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • he mocks3
  • she has mocked2
  • they mock2
  • and have you mocked1
  • and he mocked1
  • and mocking1
  • and they mocked1
  • I will mock1
  • it mocks1
  • mocking1
  • mocks1
  • stammering of1

and 2 more, 18 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

לָעַבlaabto jestUses1
לָעַזlaazto mumbleUses1
לָעַטlaatto eatUses1

All 18, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

16 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • יִלְעַג־2
  • לָעֲגָ֣ה2
  • אֶ֝לְעַ֗ג1
  • וַיַּלְעֵ֖ג1
  • וַיַּלְעִ֣גוּ1
  • וּמַלְעִגִ֖ים1
  • וַ֝תִּלְעַ֗ג1
  • יִלְעָֽג׃1
  • יַלְעִ֣גוּ1
  • יִלְעֲגוּ־1
  • לֹעֵ֣ג1
  • לֹעֵ֥ג1

and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqi3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular2HVqp3fs
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular2HVqrmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine plural1HC/Vhrmpa
  • Hc/Vhw3mp1Hc/Vhw3mp
  • Hc/Vhw3ms1Hc/Vhw3ms
  • Hc/Vqw2ms1Hc/Vqw2ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVhi2ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVhi3mp
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HVNrmsc
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqi1cs
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqi2ms

2 Kings

one use
  • This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.

    2 Kings 19:21

    • לָעֲגָ֣הlaagahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she has mocked

2 Chronicles

one use
  • And the couriers traveled from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun; but the people scorned and mocked them.

    2 Chronicles 30:10

    • וּמַלְעִגִ֖יםumaligimconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and mocking

Nehemiah

two uses
  • But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

    Nehemiah 2:19

    • וַיַּלְעִ֣גוּvaiyaliguHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they mocked
  • Now when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he was furious and filled with indignation. He ridiculed the Jews

    Nehemiah 4:1

    • וַיַּלְעֵ֖גvaiyalegHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he mocked

Job

four uses
  • When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.

    Job 9:23

    • יִלְעָֽג׃yilagverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he mocks
  • Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?

    Job 11:3

    • וַ֝תִּלְעַ֗גvatilagHc/Vqw2mstagged: and have you mocked
  • Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.

    Job 21:3

    • תַלְעִֽיג׃taligverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will mock
  • The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent mock them:

    Job 22:19

    • יִלְעַג־yilag-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he mocks

Psalms

four uses
  • The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord taunts them.

    Psalms 2:4

    • יִלְעַג־yilag-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he mocks
  • All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:

    Psalms 22:7

    • יַלְעִ֣גוּyaliguverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they mock
  • But You, O LORD, laugh at them; You scoff at all the nations.

    Psalms 59:8

    • תִּ֝לְעַ֗גtilagverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you mock
  • You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.

    Psalms 80:6

    • יִלְעֲגוּ־yilagu-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they mock

Proverbs

three uses
  • in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,

    Proverbs 1:26

    • אֶ֝לְעַ֗גʾelagverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will mock
  • He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.

    Proverbs 17:5

    • לֹעֵ֣גloegverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: mocks
  • As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.

    Proverbs 30:17

    • תִּֽלְעַ֣גtilagverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it mocks

Isaiah

two uses
  • You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.

    Isaiah 33:19

    • נִלְעַ֥גnilagverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: stammering of
  • this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.

    Isaiah 37:22

    • לָעֲגָ֣הlaagahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she has mocked

Jeremiah

one use
  • You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.

    Jeremiah 20:7

    • לֹעֵ֥גloegverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: mocking

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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