the Week of Proper 27 / Ordinary 32
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Strong's #3933 - לַעַג
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- mocking, derision, stammering
- mocking, derision
- stammerings
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2313) col (לאהג LAhG) AC: Mock CO: ? AB: ?: A mocking by stammering or imitation of a foreign tongue. [from: ol- as coming from the throat]
V) col (לאהג LAhG) - Mock: KJV (18): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil) mock, scorn, laugh, deride, stammer - Strongs: H3932 (לָעַג)
Nm) col (לאהג LAhG) - Mocking: KJV (9): scorn, derision, mocker, stammer - Strongs: H3933 (לַעַג), H3934 (לָעֵג)
em) coil (ליאהג LYAhG) - Mocker: KJV (1): stammerer - Strongs: H5926 (עִלֵּג)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1. a. mocking, derision, Psalm 123:4 ("" בוז); so apparently with suffix as Genitive object Hosea 7:16 (but very dubious, probably corrupt, compare We Now); nearly = blasphemy Job 34:7.
b. = object of derision Psalm 44:14 = Psalm 79:4 ("" חֶרְמָּה, קֶלֶס); so also Ezekiel 23:32 ("" צחק; si vera lectio, see above), Ezekiel 36:4.
2 stammerings (of barbarous language), שָׂפָה׳ל Isaiah 28:11 ("" לָשׁוֺןאַחֶרֶת; so Ew Brd Di Hup-Now Psalm 35:16, De and others below לָעֵג); but Gr Monatsschr. 1884,45 reads עלגי, √ עלג.
לַעַג masc.
(1) derision, mockery, Psalms 79:4; Ezekiel 23:32, 36:4 meton. used of that which causes it, Hosea 7:16.
(2) impious speech (compare לוּץ) Job 34:7.