מְלִיצָה
mᵉlîytsâh · H4426 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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mocking, scoffing, ridicule
Words that express insolence and contempt for someone else
ExamplesHabakkuk 2:6 “Will all of these not take up a song of ridicule against him, Even a saying and insinuations against him And say, ‘Woe to him who increases what is not his— For how long— And makes himself rich with debts!’
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enigma, obscure saying
Meaning unsure; possibly: words that are difficult to understand and need interpretation
ExamplesProverbs 1:6 To understand a proverb and a saying, The words of the wise and their riddles.
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 is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בִּיןto understand, to discern 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 1 word
- גְּדוּפָה gᵉdûwphâh · H1422 · reviling, mockery, insult
- Both words include 'taunt' or 'taunting' as a core sense. גְּדוּפָה (gᵉdûwphâh, H1422) means purely 'taunt', while the target term is polysemous ('interpretation', 'taunting'). They overlap in the sense of taunting and reviling.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Revile002004001009012
- מְלִיצָה can denote a taunting or mocking saying, as in the "taunting riddle" the nations will one day raise against Babylon's fallen king (Isaiah 14:4).
- Complicated002001003004
- The word can also denote a riddle, enigma, or figure of speech requiring interpretation, a complex saying whose meaning is not immediately plain (Proverbs 1:6).
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4426. melitsah מְלִיצָה noun [feminine] satire, mocking-poem Hab 2:6, also Pro 1:6 (al.…
מְלִיצָה noun [feminine] satire, mocking-poem Hab 2:6, also Pro 1:6 (al. here figure, enigma).
לישׁ (√ of following, Thes לושׁ; perhaps = be strong (Thes) compare Arabic , , strength; (medial י) III. see be strong, etc., apparently denominative = be lion-like).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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