קָלַס
qâlaç · H7046 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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to scorn, to disdain
State in which someone regards something as unworthy of one’s consideration
ExamplesEzekiel 16:31 “When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every public square, in spurning a prostitute’s fee, you were not like a prostitute.
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to jeer, mock or scoff
To speak insulting words to someone out of a sense of superiority, intending to bring public shame upon that person
Examples2 Kings 2:23 Now he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the road, some young boys came out from the city and ridiculed him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!”
Ezekiel 22:5 “Those who are near and those who are far from you will make fun of you, you of ill repute, full of turmoil.
Habakkuk 1:10 “They make fun of kings, And dignitaries are an object of laughter to them. They laugh at every fortress, Then heap up dirt and capture it.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
4 occurrences in 5 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
- קָרוֹבnear 1
- רָחוֹקfar 1
- Not stated: they 1
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֶתְנַןgift 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- בin/on/with+ מֶלֶךְking 1
- בin/on/with+ ךְyou 1
- בin/on/with+ וֹhim 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 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 8 words
- בּוּז bûwz · H936 · to despise, to scorn
- The target lexeme and בּוּז both denote expressions of contempt or disdain — scorn or mockery — functioning as near-synonyms describing similar acts of derision.
- לָעַב lâʻab · H3931 · to mock
- Both words are verbs of mocking and reviling with overlapping sense.
- שָׂחַק sâchaq · H7832 · to laugh, to smile, to make merry
- שָׂחַק (sâchaq, H7832) has a broader range (also "laugh, rejoice, play"), but the two overlap in the sense of mockery and derision.
- לוּץ lûwts · H3887 · insolent person, to behave arrogantly
- The target lexeme and לִיץ both denote mocking or scorning actions, with substantial overlap in gloss (‘mock, scorn’), functioning as near-synonyms.
- שָׁאט shâʼṭ · H7590 · to go about, to rove about, to row
- The target lexeme (mock, scoff, scorn) and שָׁאט (despise) both denote contemptuous attitudes or actions, functioning as near-synonyms within the same semantic field.
- הָתַל hâthal · H2048 · to mock, to deceive
- The target lexeme (mock, scoff, scorn) and תָּלַל (which also carries a sense of deception) both denote verbal scorn or mockery, functioning as near-synonyms in contexts of verbal contempt.
- בָּזָה bâzâh · H959 · to despise, to disdain, to scorn
- The target lexeme and בָּזָה both denote a contemptuous attitude or expressed scorn toward someone or something, functioning as near-synonyms.
- עִיט ʻîyṭ · H5860 · to rush upon, to insult, to rail
- עִיט (‘to fly’; also ‘to rail,’ i.e. revile or mock) and the target lexeme (mock, scoff, scorn) both denote verbal derision or mockery, functioning as near-synonyms.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Despise002001002005
- The word means to mock or scorn, directly illustrated by the boys who ridiculed Elisha (2 Kings 2:23) and those far and near who make fun of Jerusalem (Ezekiel 22:5).
- Revile002004001009012
- The same mocking behavior is verbal in nature, illustrated by nations who "make fun of kings" and laugh at every fortress (Habakkuk 1:10).
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7046. qalas [קָלַס] verb mock, scoff (Ecclus 11:4 תקלס, text by AdlerJQ xii (1900),…
[קָלַס] verb mock, scoff (Ecclus 11:4 תקלס, text by AdlerJQ xii (1900), 470); —
Pi`el Infinitive construct אָתְנָן לְקַלֵּס Eze 16:31 to scoff at hire (of Jerusalem under figure of harlot), but ᵑ6 ᵐ5 Symm collect, read לִקְבֹּץ Gr Toy Krae (or לְלַקֵּט, Co).
Hithpa`el mock, deride, with ב person, Imperfect3masculine singular יִתְקַלָּ֑ס Hab 1:10; Hab 1:3masculine plural יִתְקַלְּסוּ Eze 22:5, ׳וַיִּת 2Ki 2:23.
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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