Limitless Word
לַעַגlaʻag/lah'-ag/
HebrewH39337 occurrences (KJV)

derision, scoffing

KJV renders it: derision, scorn (-ing).

Where it appears

  • Job 34:7What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,
  • Ps 44:13You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.
  • Ps 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
  • Ps 123:4Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
  • Ezek 23:32“Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘You will drink of your sister’s cup, which is deep and large. You will be ridiculed and held in derision. It contains much.
  • Ezek 36:4therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around;
  • Hos 7:16They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.