לוּץ
lûwts · loots
properly, to make mouths at, i.e. to scoff; hence (from the effort to pronounce a foreign language) to interpret, or (generally) intercede
Lexicon
Derivation: 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
- properly, to make mouths at, i.e. to scoff
- hence, (from the effort to pronounce a foreign language) to interpret, or (generally) intercede
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker, scorn(-er, -ful), teacher.
Letters
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
authority, the one who leads › to fasten and establish › to pursue the straight path
Authority, the one who leads that works to fasten and establish that works to pursue the straight path.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of לוּץ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
28 occurrences · 28 OT · 0 NT · 21 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- a scorner4 · 15%
- and the scorner2 · 7%
- them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter1 · 4%
- in the business of the ambassadors1 · 4%
- scorn1 · 4%
- with him, an interpreter1 · 4%
- of the scornful1 · 4%
- in derision1 · 4%
- and the scorners1 · 4%
- surely he scorneth1 · 4%
- the scorners1 · 4%
- not a scorner1 · 4%
- for thyself: but if thou scornest1 · 4%
- but a scorner1 · 4%
- make a mock1 · 4%
- scorneth1 · 4%
- for scorners1 · 4%
- is a mocker1 · 4%
- when the scorner1 · 4%
- scorner1 · 4%
- the scorner1 · 4%
- now therefore be ye not mockers1 · 4%
- and thy teachers1 · 4%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.