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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

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  • Proverbs 21:24
    Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.
  • Proverbs 22:10
    Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
  • Proverbs 24:9
    The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
  • Isaiah 28:22
    Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
  • Isaiah 29:20
    For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
  • Isaiah 43:27
    Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.