לָצוֹן
lâtsôwn · H3944 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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taunting, scoffing
Action by which someone shows contempt for people and ideas
ExamplesProverbs 1:22 “How long, you naive ones, will you love simplistic thinking? And how long will scoffers delight themselves in scoffing And fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 29:8 Arrogant people inflame a city, But wise people turn away anger.
Isaiah 28:14 Therefore, hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers, Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חָמַדto desire 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- אִישׁman, person, each 2
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 7 words
- בִּזָּיוֹן bizzâyôwn · H963 · contempt, scorn, disrespect
- Both words denote attitudes or states of disdain and scorn: scornful behavior on the one hand and contempt as a state or attitude on the other. Both words are rare.
- שְׁאָט shᵉʼâṭ · H7589 · scorn, malice, contempt
- Both words describe contemptuous attitudes, scornful on the one hand and despiteful on the other. Both words are rare.
- שְׁנִינָה shᵉnîynâh · H8148 · taunt
- Both words denote acts or states of contemptuous speech or mockery, scornful speech on the one hand and a taunting byword on the other.
- דְּרָאוֹן dᵉrâʼôwn · H1860 · object of abhorrence
- Both words denote attitudes of disdain or contempt and could substitute in expressing scorn or abhorrence.
- בּוּז bûwz · H937 · contempt
- Both words denote attitudes or acts of contempt and scorn in the area of disdain.
- קַלָּסָה qallâçâh · H7048 · object of scorn
- Both words denote scornful or mocking attitudes or actions, in the area of despising and mocking behavior.
- קֶלֶס qeleç · H7047 · scorn
- Both words denote closely related acts or attitudes of mocking contempt, scorn and derision.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Despise002001002005
- לָצוֹן means scornfulness, as in Proverbs 1:22's rebuke of scoffers "who delight in scoffing," placing it among terms of contempt and mockery.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3944. latson לָצוֺן noun [masculine] scorning, Pro 1:22; לָצוֺן אַנְשֵׁי men of…
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
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