International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
MOCK; MOCKER; MOCKINGmok, mok'er, mok'-ing (hathal, la`agh, empaizo): To mock is the translation of hathal, "to play upon," "mock," "deride" (Judges 16:10, 13, 15 1 Kings 18:27, "Elijah mocked them"; Job 13:9 twice, the Revised Version (British and American) "deceiveth," "deceive," margin "mocketh," "mock"); of la`agh, "to stammer" or "babble in mimicry," "to mock" or "scorn" (2 Chronicles 30:10 Nehemiah 4:1 Job 11:3; Job 21:3 Proverbs 1:26; Proverbs 17:5; Proverbs 30:17 Jeremiah 20:7). Other words are tsachaq, "to laugh," etc. (Genesis 19:14; Genesis 21:9; Genesis 39:14, 17); qalac, "to call out," or "cry after," "to scoff" or "mock at" (2 Kings 2:23 Ezekiel 22:5); sachaq, "to laugh," "mock" (Job 39:22 Lamentations 1:7); luts, "to scorn" (Proverbs 14:9); sechoq, "laughter," "derision" (Job 12:4); empaizo, "to treat as a child," "mock" (Matthew 2:16; Matthew 20:19; Matthew 27:29, 31, 41 Luke 14:29, etc.); diachleuazo, "to mock," "laugh," etc. (Acts 2:13; Acts 17:32); mukterizo, "to sneer at," "mock," literally, "to turn up the nose" (Galatians 6:7, "God is not mocked," "will not let himself be mocked"); epigelao, "laugh" (Job 2:8; 1Ma 7:34; compare 2Ma 7:39; 2Ma 8:17).
Mocker, hathulim, "deceivers," "mockers" (Job 17:2); luts (Proverbs 20:1 Isaiah 28:22 the King James Version); la`egh, "stammering," "mocking" (Psalm 35:16; compare Isaiah 28:11); sachaq (Jeremiah 15:17); empaiktes, "a mocker," "scoffer," literally, "sporting as children" (Jude 1:18; compare 2 Peter 3:3).
Mocking is the translation of qallacah "mocking," "derision" (Ezekiel 22:4); of empaigmos the Septuagint for qallacah) (Hebrews 11:36; Wis 12:25; Ecclesiasticus 27:28, "mockery"; 2Ma 7:7, "mocking-stock," the Revised Version (British and American) "the mocking"; 2 Maccabees 7:10, "made a mocking-stock" (empaizo)); of mokos (Ecclesiasticus 33:6).
For "mocked of" (Job 12:4) the Revised Version (British and American) has "a laughing-stock to"; for "mockers" (Isaiah 28:22), the English Revised Version "scorner," the American Standard Revised Version "scoffer"; for "the mockers" (Jeremiah 15:17), "them that made merry"; for "scorneth" (Proverbs 19:28), "mocketh at"; for "As one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?" (Job 13:9), "As one deceiveth a man will ye deceive him?" (margin, "mocketh," "mock"); "mock" for "laugh" (Job 9:23); for "There shall come in the last days scoffers" (2 Peter 3:3), "In the last days (margin, "Greek in the last of the days") mockers shall come with mockery" (empaigmone empaiktai).
W. L. Walker
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) One who, or that which, mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider.
2. (n.) A deceiver; an impostor.
3. (n.) A mocking bird.
Strong's Hebrew
3887. luts -- ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a ...... luts. 3888 >>. ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock,
mocker.
Transliteration: luts Phonetic Spelling: (loots) Short Definition: ambassador.
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... buffoon, mocker, stammerer. From la'ag; a buffoon; also a foreigner -- mocker,
stammering. see HEBREW la'ag. << 3933, 3934. laeg. 3935 >>. Strong's Numbers.
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2049. hathulim -- mockery
... mocker. From hathal (only in plural collectively); a derision -- mocker. see HEBREW
hathal. << 2048, 2049. hathulim. 2050 >>. Strong's Numbers.
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7832. sachaq -- to laugh
... smiles (1), sport (1). deride, have in derision, laugh, make merry, mocker,
play, rejoice, laugh to scorn,. A primitive root; to ...
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3917b. lits -- to scorn
... to scorn NASB Word Usage carry on as scoffers (1), deride (1), envoys (1), interpreter
(1), makes a mockery (1), mediator (1), mock (1), mocker (1), scoff (1 ...
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