Word

לָעֵג

lâʻêg · H3934 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

scoffer

Only used in poetry; humans who express their disdain of others with words, sounds and/or gestures

Examples
Psalm 35:16 Like godless jesters at a feast, They gnashed at me with their teeth.
incomprehensible

Literally: scoffing; hence: state in which a language is hard to understand and its words may sometimes come across as mocking

Examples
Isaiah 28:11 Indeed, He will speak to this people Through stammering lips and a foreign tongue,

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

מָעוֹגsomething baked 1
שָׂפָהlip 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בin/on/with 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

חָנֵףgodless 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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Semantic domains 2 entries

People001001003: לָעֵג denotes a mocker as a class of person, as in Psalm 35:16's "godless jesters at a feast," grouping the term with categories of people.
Hard002001003009: The same word also describes stammering or difficult, halting speech, as in Isaiah 28:11's "stammering lips and a foreign tongue," tying the word to speech that is difficult to produce or understand.

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

לָעַג lâʻag · H3932 · to mock, a mocking tongue · 18×לַעַג laʻag · H3933 · scoffing, mocking, derision · 7×לָעֵגlâʻêg · H3934

Also from the root לָעַג

מָעוֹג mâʻôwg · H4580 · something baked · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3934. laeg [לָעֵג] adjective mocking, only plural construct as noun (si vera lectio),…

H3934. laeg
[לָעֵג] adjective mocking, only plural construct as noun (si vera lectio), מָעוֺג לַעֲגֵי Psa 35:16 mockers of מָעוֺג (q. v.), but text dubious; Che reads לֹעֲגֵי SchwZAW xi. 1890, 258 לָֽעֲגוּ. — To [לָעֵג] is also reffered לַעֲגֵי Isa 28:11 by Ges De Che Du, < below לַעַג q. v.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

People1 occurrence Hard1 occurrence

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