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Strong's numbers

לוּץ (H3887)

lûwts

loots

a primitive root; properly, to make mouths at, i.e. to scoff; hence (from the effort to pronounce a foreign language) to interpret, or (generally) intercede; ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker, scorn(-er, -ful), teacher.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

[לִיץ] vb. scorn
Qal scorn
Hiph.
1 deride
2 Pt. interpreter
Po‛lel scorners
Hithp. act as a scorner, shew oneself a mocker

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


26 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Genesis 42:23
    And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
  • 2 Chronicles 32:31
    Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
  • Job 16:20
    My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
  • Job 33:23
    If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:
  • Psalms 1:1
    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
  • Psalms 119:51
    The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
  • Proverbs 1:22
    How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
  • Proverbs 3:34
    Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.
  • Proverbs 9:7
    He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
  • Proverbs 9:8
    Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.