לָעַג
lâʻag · law-ag'
to deride; by implication (as if imitating a foreigner) to speak unintelligibly
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to deride; by implication (as if imitating a foreigner) to speak unintelligibly
- to deride
- by implication, (as if imitating a foreigner) to speak unintelligibly
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: have in derision, laugh (to scorn), mock (on), stammering.
Letters
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
authority, the one who leads › to see and know › to carry, to lift up
Authority, the one who leads that works to see and know that works to carry, to lift up.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of לָעַג 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
18 occurrences · 18 OT · 0 NT · 16 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- thee, and laughed thee to scorn2 · 11%
- and mocked2 · 11%
- it, they laughed us to scorn1 · 6%
- he will laugh1 · 6%
- and when thou mockest1 · 6%
- mock on1 · 6%
- laugh them to scorn1 · 6%
- shall have them in derision1 · 6%
- me laugh me to scorn1 · 6%
- in derision1 · 6%
- laugh1 · 6%
- i will mock1 · 6%
- whoso mocketh1 · 6%
- that mocketh1 · 6%
- of a stammering1 · 6%
- every one mocketh1 · 6%
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.