תָּעַע
tâʻaʻ · H8591 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to mock, to scoff
State in which someone considers someone or something else unworthy of attention or respect, and shows that by his/her actions
Examples2 Chronicles 36:16 but they continually mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD rose against His people, until there was no remedy.
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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (participle) 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with+ נָבִיאprophet 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 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 1 word
- הָתַל hâthal · H2048 · to mock, to deceive
- Both lexemes describe deceptive action — "deal deceitfully, deceive" versus "deceive, misuse" — reflecting overlap in the sense of harmful or deceptive speech or action, making them a near-synonym pairing.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Despise002001002005
- This verb denotes being regarded with scornful disdain, as in Genesis 27:12's fear that Jacob would be seen by his father as a deceiver bringing a curse on himself.
- Revile002004001009012
- The verb also denotes mockery aimed at others, as in 2 Chronicles 36:16's account of the people continually mocking the messengers of God until His wrath rose against them.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8591. ta 'a' [תָּעַע] verb Pilpel, Hithpa`el mock (compare Arabic image unavailable…
'a' [תָּעַע] verb Pilpel, Hithpa`el mock (compare Arabic image unavailable stammer, also shake violently; onomatopoetic); —
Pilpel Participle מְתַעְתֵּ֑עַ Gen 27:12 +?a mocker.
Hithpa`el Participle plural מִתַּעְתְּעִים2Ch 36:16, with ב person, mocking at his prophets (+בּוֺזִים מַלְעִבִים,).
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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