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hebrew #3931 - לָעַב laab (to jest)


Original Word:לָעַב
Transliteration: laab
Definition:to jest
Part of Speech:Verb
Phonetic Spelling:(law-ab')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

mock

A primitive root; to deride -- mock.


Englishman's Concordance

1) to joke, jest
1a) (Hiphil) to make jokes
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1117

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[לָעַב] verbjest (Late Hebrew Hiph`il id.; ᵑ7לְעַב Ethpa`al id.; Syriac Ethpa`al mock, delight oneself, be greedy; Arabic play, sport, jest); — only

Hiph`ilParticiple׳וַיִּהְיוּ מַלְעִבִים בְּ2Chronicles 36:16 and they were (continually) making jest at the messengers of God.


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 3931. לָעַב (laab) — 1 Occurrence

2 Chronicles 36:16
HEB: וַיִּֽהְי֤וּ מַלְעִבִים֙ בְּמַלְאֲכֵ֣י הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים
NAS:but they [continually] mocked the messengers
KJV:But they mocked the messengers of God,
INT: become they mocked the messengers of God

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