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 39Old Testament books
- 16spellings
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
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.
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.
- 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.
- 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?”
- 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
- וַיַּלְעֵ֖גvaiyalegHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he mocked
Job
four uses
When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.
- יִלְעָֽג׃yilagverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he mocks
Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?
- וַ֝תִּלְעַ֗גvatilagHc/Vqw2mstagged: and have you mocked
Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
- תַלְעִֽיג׃taligverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will mock
The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent mock them:
- 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.
- 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:
- יַלְעִ֣גוּyaliguverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they mock
But You, O LORD, laugh at them; You scoff at all the nations.
- תִּ֝לְעַ֗גtilagverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you mock
You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.
- 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,
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- לֹעֵ֥גloegverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: mocking
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.
