Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3933
לַעַג
laaglah'-ag
derision
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: laʻag
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3933is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3933
derision, scoffing
The King James renders it: derision, scorn (-ing).
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 "derision". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 34:7What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
Job 34:7לַּ֥עַג
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
- mockery3
- and into mockery2
- mockery their1
- the mockery of1
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 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- לַ֥עַג2
- הַלַּ֥עַג1
- וּלְלַ֖עַג1
- וּלְלַ֔עַג1
- לַּ֥עַג1
- לַעְגָּ֖ם1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular1HC/R/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/R/Ncmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcmsc/Sp3mp
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HTd/Ncmsc
Job
one use
What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
- לַּ֥עַגlaagnoun · masculine singulartagged: mockery
Psalms
three uses
You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
- לַ֥עַגlaagnoun · masculine singulartagged: mockery
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
- לַ֥עַגlaagnoun · masculine singulartagged: mockery
We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.
- הַלַּ֥עַגhalaagthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: the mockery of
Ezekiel
two uses
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup deep and wide. It will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.
- וּלְלַ֖עַגulelaagconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and into mockery
therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become a spoil and a mockery to the rest of the nations around you.
- וּלְלַ֔עַגulelaagconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and into mockery
Hosea
one use
They turn, but not to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword for the cursing of their tongue; for this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt.
- לַעְגָּ֖םla'gamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: mockery their
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.