גְּדוּפָה
gᵉdûwphâh · H1422 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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reviling, mockery, insult
Action by which a human being utters words that are intended to provoke shame in someone else
ExamplesEzekiel 5:15 ‘So it will be a disgrace, an object of abuse, a warning, and an object of horror to the nations that surround you when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging reprimands. I, the LORD, have spoken.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 4 words
- שְׂחוֹק sᵉchôwq · H7814 · laughter, laughingstock
- Both lexemes denote mocking or scornful speech/behavior: "taunt" (גְּדוּפָה (gᵉdûwphâh, H1422)) and "derision/mocked/laughter to scorn" (שְׂחוֹק (sᵉchôwq, H7814)) are genuinely synonymous in the negative-mocking sense. The Revile domain (8 members) is specific enough to signal real semantic overlap rather than generic categorization. This appears to be a legitimate near-synonym pairing of two distinct Hebrew words for scornful speech.
- דׇּפִי dophîy · H1848 · to slander
- Both words refer to acts of verbal abuse or reviling (taunt, slander).
- מְלִיצָה mᵉlîytsâh · H4426 · mocking, scoffing, ridicule
- Both words include "taunt" or "taunting" as a core sense. גְּדוּפָה (gᵉdûwphâh, H1422) is purely "taunt," while מְלִיצָה (mᵉlîytsâh, H4426) has several senses ("interpretation, taunting"). They share an overlapping range in the taunting or reviling sense.
- שְׁאָט shᵉʼâṭ · H7589 · scorn, malice, contempt
- Both words denote acts of verbal abuse or scorn (taunt versus contempt or despite), as distinct Hebrew words for closely related hostile speech acts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Revile002004001009012
- גְּדוּפָה denotes a taunt or object of scorn, as in Ezekiel 5:15's prophecy that Jerusalem will become a taunt to the surrounding nations.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1422. geduphah גְּדוּפָה noun feminine taunt, only Eze 5:15 ׳וּג לַגּוֺיִם וּמְשַׁמָּה…
גְּדוּפָה noun feminine taunt, only Eze 5:15 ׳וּג לַגּוֺיִם וּמְשַׁמָּה מוּסָר חֶרְמָּה וְהָֽיְתָה and she shall become a reproach and a taunt, an admonition and an astonishment, to the nations.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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